This website will chronicle the tortuous road to becoming traditionally published.

From the moment I place a pack of yellow legal tablets on my desk, and position a box of sharpened #2 Ticonderoga pencils just so; I am in a state of bliss. Words cannot express the levels of joy I experience whenever I’m engaged in researching a topic of curiosity.  Locked away and the world shut out, I become a bit of a nerd. Here’s to my neurodivergent thinking, and all that that entails. Allow me to say with the utmost expression of self-love: Regarding the art of writing: ‘Kudos to the obligatory obsessive compulsiveness of it all!’

This will be my second ‘go-round’ of pitching, and submitting a book to literary agents. My first ‘Pitch’ was in 2019, in New York City, at the Writer’s Digest Conference, where I was surprised to see, the response was favorable. I received one request for my full novel , and three other partial manuscript requests. Needless to say, I was psyched. Then along came COVID, and of course, I caught it. Three times, over the following two and a half years.

While I was quarantined in 2021, I began to put the concepts together for converting my website: ‘Yah, Father Of Lights.com‘ into book format. In 2023, 'Yahuah’s Heavenly Calendar: Learning To Count the Days', began to take shape, and was finally completed in August 2025. It has been a long and arduous road.

My website and blog, will deal with everything it takes to give birth to a ‘book-baby’; i.e., obtaining a literary agent, revisions, pitching, creating a website; even building a social media presence when you would prefer to spend your time writing. Of course the ultimate goal  is to become published, either traditionally, or self-published. As of now, I've chosen the traditional route, and I will allow myself 9 months for that to happen. If no success,  on to Option 2. Either way, I will keep you posted. Fair warning; I’ve oft been accused of being long-winded. Bear with me.

NeorahYah Germaine
09.2025