After a long day at work as a personal assistant, 28-year-old Nikki Kelly was commuting home on the London Underground’s Central Line when she received an eagerly anticipated email. “I’m not going to read it on the train in case it’s a ‘no,'” she thought. She was expecting a rejection.
Kelly got off the train two stops early. On the platform, she looked at her iPad and tentatively read the first couple of lines of the message.
The email was from the editor in chief at a prominent children’s publisher. They liked her manuscript.
“I burst into tears,” she says. “I was literally standing on the platform sobbing and people were looking at me like I was very strange.”