Power Multiplied

Cute Animal Pix for No Good Reason

On one side is my ten month old kitten Mochi {and we are talking a cat which is still very much a kitten but in a ten-pound body} defending the sink from all comers. On the other side we have my last dog, Tulip, with a big string of slobber on her face. ???? An update on my latest novel, Robot: A Deadly Romance--I received an email from the small press to which I submitted it recently letting me know that it was currently "in the hands of the Acquisition Committee." So at least I wasn't rejected by the initial reader, who reads ten pages or so and often says "eh, not a chance." This means a rejection notice goes out to the novelist whose hopes {and ego} are about to be crushed. But what does it mean that it's "in the hands of the Acquisition Committee?" Has a single editor looked at it and deemed it worthy and passed on to the final decision-makers? Or is this phrase merely the nice way of saying that no one has had a chance to read the manuscript yet? The hopeful novelist {me} would like to think it means they are seriously considering it. I don't like to think that they will find it not "commercial" enough. This is always a problem for me, because I write what my heart wants to write rather than writing to market. Fingers still crossed.