It's been a great two weeks
In the last two weeks I have signed two book contracts, found out that one of my editors is showing 3 other manuscripts of mine to her publisher (hopefully soon), my other editor really likes (with an exclamation point) the manuscript I just sent and I think my agent likes me.
Yesterday I got to see/meet/stalk/take photo with the brilliant Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead, thanks to my good friend whose daughter goes to the middle school at which Rebecca spoke. I was a guest of a 6th grader. I tried to blend. And, of course, Miss Stead was witty, engaging, smartly dressed and okay with me being a fellow children's author/bit of a lunatic fan. i.e. I was the only one who brought a camera and made another mom take a photo of us on my iphone and my digital camera. Doesn't get cornier than that. I bought her first book, First Light and of course, When You Reach Me. Here's one of the photos. If I look tan, it's because I was flushed like a dorky school girl brushing up against the school heartthrob.
Anyway, I went home and revised my YA for an hour, hoping some of Rebecca's genius rubbed off on me. I'll take a microbe of it, please.
Yesterday I got to see/meet/stalk/take photo with the brilliant Newbery Medal winner Rebecca Stead, thanks to my good friend whose daughter goes to the middle school at which Rebecca spoke. I was a guest of a 6th grader. I tried to blend. And, of course, Miss Stead was witty, engaging, smartly dressed and okay with me being a fellow children's author/bit of a lunatic fan. i.e. I was the only one who brought a camera and made another mom take a photo of us on my iphone and my digital camera. Doesn't get cornier than that. I bought her first book, First Light and of course, When You Reach Me. Here's one of the photos. If I look tan, it's because I was flushed like a dorky school girl brushing up against the school heartthrob.
Anyway, I went home and revised my YA for an hour, hoping some of Rebecca's genius rubbed off on me. I'll take a microbe of it, please.