Editor, Writer,

Today I mailed out some very serious hopes and dreams, by snail mail and electronically.

Snail Mail: After a final read and polish on Sweet Tea for Frankenstein, I’ve mailed it to the Delacorte contest for a first young adult novel. This really seems like a long shot, but I also know that I’ve worked with professional editors on my final product and have integrated some agent suggestions as well. So that should give me at least a fighting chance. Also, they definitely don’t choose a winner every year so that makes me think maybe a ton of people don’t enter this contest. In any case, the winner gets a book contract. With Random House. Pretty much a dream come true.

Electronically: I ran across a job listing this morning that looked absolutely perfect. Completely. It’s for a good publisher, working with children’s imprints, doing work that I have just the right qualifications for. I keep seeing good listings and getting my hopes up, only to not get any sort of contact. I’m really wishing and hoping and praying for this one…it would be in New York so that would require some other things to work out, too. But wow, if everything did work out? WOW!

Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM! (and Aunt Jackie!) 

P.S. I am a freelance editor and writer in the Inland Empire. (How was that, Matt?)

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