Moving On
Christmas is over. It was a very nice day, overall. Lots of family and food and laughter, which we needed after a long week of rushing and sadness. Boy got a ton of stuff, which I had been trying to avoid but how can you?? Actually everything he got was reasonable and small - mostly books and Wii games and Didj games and clothes and Transformers. Nothing large that I will have to find room for in the great disaster that is our sunroom/toyroom/room I work in.
I got some lovely things, almost everything on my Amazon Wish List. I have a pile of DVD's to watch, some movies I've seen but don't own, like THE PRESTIGE and DOGMA (which I could watch over and over again forever!) and two that I hadn't seen yet. Wii games, including two new workout "games": the EA Active expansion pack and a Cardio Boxing game. BOOKS, including SHADOW DRAGON by coppervale , THE SWEET FAR THING by Libba Bray, and NEW MOON. I know, but I enjoyed TWILIGHT enough by the end of it that I do want to read the next. Yes, I also got a Snuggie. It's totally cheesy, I get it. I look like a 12th century monk in Hunter Green. But I'll tell ya, it IS nice to write while wearing, read a book with. My arms are toasty warm, and it's very comfortable.
Yesterday was a long, sad day, as we laid my dear uncle to rest. I was so wiped out at the end that I just came home and watched STAR TREK, one of my Christmas DVD's, and vegetated. Great movie, by the way. Really fun, a little campy, but then again, wasn't the original?
And now we're moving on. I got an email today outlining my day at the NJSCBWI Mentoring Workshop in a couple of weeks. So I will send along my manuscript pages to the other six in my group and wait for them to send me theirs. The website gave three mentor names, and said one more TBA, and I think I got that one, since the name that was in my email is not on the list. If I'm right, then I'll be getting a one-on-one critique from Lisa Yoskowitz, Senior Editor at Penguin/Dutton. I'm excited and nervous. Excited to hear what she has to say, waiting to find out what things I'm missing from my work that's keeping me out of the game of Big Publishing. Of course there's always nerves and anxiety when giving work to someone else, especially someone in the business. But I'm more excited than anything else.
Sigh. Back to regularly scheduled life. Laundry is waiting. And Lego Rock Band :)
I got some lovely things, almost everything on my Amazon Wish List. I have a pile of DVD's to watch, some movies I've seen but don't own, like THE PRESTIGE and DOGMA (which I could watch over and over again forever!) and two that I hadn't seen yet. Wii games, including two new workout "games": the EA Active expansion pack and a Cardio Boxing game. BOOKS, including SHADOW DRAGON by coppervale , THE SWEET FAR THING by Libba Bray, and NEW MOON. I know, but I enjoyed TWILIGHT enough by the end of it that I do want to read the next. Yes, I also got a Snuggie. It's totally cheesy, I get it. I look like a 12th century monk in Hunter Green. But I'll tell ya, it IS nice to write while wearing, read a book with. My arms are toasty warm, and it's very comfortable.
Yesterday was a long, sad day, as we laid my dear uncle to rest. I was so wiped out at the end that I just came home and watched STAR TREK, one of my Christmas DVD's, and vegetated. Great movie, by the way. Really fun, a little campy, but then again, wasn't the original?
And now we're moving on. I got an email today outlining my day at the NJSCBWI Mentoring Workshop in a couple of weeks. So I will send along my manuscript pages to the other six in my group and wait for them to send me theirs. The website gave three mentor names, and said one more TBA, and I think I got that one, since the name that was in my email is not on the list. If I'm right, then I'll be getting a one-on-one critique from Lisa Yoskowitz, Senior Editor at Penguin/Dutton. I'm excited and nervous. Excited to hear what she has to say, waiting to find out what things I'm missing from my work that's keeping me out of the game of Big Publishing. Of course there's always nerves and anxiety when giving work to someone else, especially someone in the business. But I'm more excited than anything else.
Sigh. Back to regularly scheduled life. Laundry is waiting. And Lego Rock Band :)