@Siobhan Keeley I think you need to trust your gut on that, you've been pushing for positive change for so long. Time for you to do right by you. 💪 Somehow, it is going incredibly. I pushed to hit a couple of aggressive deadlines (one was day of Dad's funeral 😬) & got it infront of an editor for Hachette in August. She deemed it a 'highly commercially viable novel' and signed off on my structural edits 1st pass (which apparently rarely happens 👀). Those are done, & I'm tearing it apart line by line to tighten everything up. Went to an Author's event in London the other week after my photoshoot & found out that my Writing Coach has also been talking positively about my work behind the scenes 🥹 Here's the beast... Xx (Rachel Salix is my pen name, decided in Nov I didn't want to take my birth name forward into my writing.)