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I'm sorry to hear you had a battle with cancer, but it's great news that you beat it four years ago (two of my siblings also beat cancer years ago).

I'd love to see more of your art. I remember your posting art here years ago, and I was impressed by that.

Good for you for finishing that illustrated children's book, after those early starts when you judged yourself too harshly. Probably all writers do that at times. Even Stephen King was going to throw out the first novel he sold, Carrie, and that was after he'd sold a number of short stories.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/sep/17/stephenking.fiction

But please don't say things like this to yourself or others:

You don't know that. You won't know whether it will sell until you try to sell it. And for God's sake don't give up if one or two publishers aren't interested. There are quite a few famous, bestselling writers who succeeded after early rejections by editors who should have been smarter.

I'm looking forward to reading that book and giving copies to my young relatives.