Agent Lady from Friday hasn't emailed me back yet. I'll snail mail the MS over tomorrow, absent email be damned! 

Hopefully she'll still read it because I'm rather low on AA requests and I have to take all I can get. 

In other news, I got a call today from The Bank. 

Bank Lady says, "Hey Jennifer! You haven't taken that other job yet, have you?"

I'm trying not to laugh as I say, "No." The other job is Walmart, I think, and with lilrongal's help, I've read Nickel and Dimed. I'd be an idiot to take that job!

"Oh good," Bank Lady says. "Well, you did really well on your testing on Friday and we want to send you on your second interview. It's the final step in the hiring process and it'll be less formal. The manager and head teller at the East Branch just want to meet you and ask a few questions. Does that sound okay?"

I'm like HELL YEAH! I didn't say that, of course...

The job is at the East Branch, which, I'm actually pleased with. The East Branch is smaller and smaller means less imposing. And I'm already scared out of my mind about the whole thing. We played Monopoly Saturday night and I screwed up the money like a million times! How will I ever do a REAL bank job?

But anyway...my friend Lacy (who works at another bank) assures me that after a while, the job will be no big deal. You learn and you get better at it. I hope she's right. 

(Despite how scared I am and how much I'm craving an easy job---like at Staples or something---the bank job really makes the most sense. I'll mostly work while Son is in school---total bonus there. Mr. Jen has weekends off, I'll have weekends off [except for Saturday mornings every now and then] and the pay is pretty dang good. I just have to get over my initial fear of screwing up. And I also have to get the job first!)

"The Willow and the Wrath" just isn't cutting it. janetgurtler  pointed out---after reading the book---that the title didn't seem to fit and I have to agree. I mean, I really like "The Willow and the Wrath" but I'm not sure it says what I want it to say about the book.

I've been contemplating new titles all weekend. I think I'll be ready to submit queries in one-two week's time and I want to be sure I have a good title to go with the query. And, some how in the span of the revision, WW's story became more Redd's story than Anna's. And one of the major elements of his POV is his art. I'd love to get that in the title somewhere. 

 So, maybe...

The Art of Her

What do you think? Of course, if you all can think of something much better than this, I'd love you forever!! I'm not very good with titles, I've come to realize. 

In other news, I came up with a new book idea this weekend. The idea started like this:

There were ten of them. Mom. Dad. Eight kids.

I think the idea came from an article I read the other day about a really large family and I started wondering what it'd be like to have such a large family. But then the idea morphed from this point to something else entirely and I really like the direction it's taking. I wrote about two pages late last night. It's hard to say where I'll go once I start subbing WW and can finally focus on something else. I'd like to choose between three projects. This new one about the huge family, the one about Tristan Van Port (the criminal genius) or a third project I have about three pages on. I like them all and it might take a bit more exploration with all three to decide.