Serendipity

I was watching TV with Zach when an amazing trailer came on during the commercial break for one of our many TV shows.
The Immortals.
It threw me into a funk. There's MY GENRE being played out, yet again, on the big screen. I am the one in love with Greek Mythology! It's not a fad! Or is it? Maybe it is, and maybe this is the perfect time for my novel. Yes, the novel that sits unwritten in my "dropbox."
Needless to say, or maybe I do need to say it, I was in a funk about the novel. I felt like I had a ticket for the train but spent too much time packing my bags that I missed it. I want to be a novelist, professionaly. Yes, I've written a novel, but no, it's not polished. And no, it's not published. But I want to be published.
Write for yourself.
Been there. Done that. I want to be a professional. Hate to break it to you, but even the best artists of the past wanted to be professionals. Even (a famous historical artist I need to look up) used aging techniques to make his art look older so that it would be worth more. Etsy is full of amazing artists who want to be professionals (and are!). There are loads of amazing musicians who take money for their craft. As artists, we naturally want to share, and what better way to share than by publication?
Anyway...
I'm in a funk later that night and decide to text my muse, Mark, my younger brother. But he's started a brand new job-the first in his adult life-and I haven't even called him to check in. So, he's out. I mean, what kind of schmuck am I? So, I go on a hash-tag search on Twitter for #novel. I find a lot of random Asian script which frustrates me. I decide to rely on fate and just do fast scroll through the enourmous list allowing my finger to stop the flying tweets randomly.
As fate would have it, I land on a Tweet by a woman who lives here, in dinky Northwest Ohio. She's about 35 minutes north of me and an established novelist.
WOW! 
Serendipity much?
Anyway...I've begun following her and just purchased her book. We'll see what happens.