Whoot!
Well, all those queries to all those agents has finally paid off!
Don’t get all excited and congratulatory though…I didn’t score an agent.
I did, however, score a sparkly $50 Barnes & Noble gift card for my year-long quest for publication at my local RWA chapter’s holiday party. I can do some seriously good shopping with $50. The reward-style Momentum Award is new to our chapter this year and still being tweaked. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time–and isn’t that what publishing is all about?
Fifty dollars was the second place gift and awarded on a points system, with points being given for a variety of beneficial writing practices: attending a workshop, reading a book on writing craft, querying an editor or agent–each of those was worth five points. And I tallied–I’ve queried 35 agents this year–all but one of them via computer (read, no postage). So I had some points. I didn’t quite dominate as I’d hoped, nor did I get the 1st prize $75 gift card. But the $50 is just fine with me.
And everyone liked my Spinach Queso too! We all decided it was a healthy vegetable alternative and could even be poured over turkey at Thanksgiving.
And I started a new manuscript! Yay!
12/17/2008 at 5:02 am
Woohoo! A good wootin’ day for you all around.
12/17/2008 at 11:29 am
That’s cool. Congratulations! Enjoy that card.
12/17/2008 at 12:57 pm
Congrats on the win and the new manuscript, but as a carnivore I’m not giving kudos in spinach anything.
12/17/2008 at 3:26 pm
Enjoy your B&N card. I could do some serious damage with a $50 gift card. Congrats on the new manuscript and the spinach queso(must give the recipe a shot).
12/17/2008 at 4:58 pm
Fifty dollars worth of books is very, very nice!
Good luck with the agent search!
12/17/2008 at 6:40 pm
Congrats!
12/17/2008 at 9:41 pm
the only way i'd buy something from B&N is if i had a gift card…i rely more and more on Half Price Books.
congrats on the card!
hope you and your family enjoy a festive and joyous holiday and happy new year!
12/19/2008 at 2:59 am
You had my heartrate up! I was about to throw down the laptop and run to the phone to call!! Congrats on the gift certificate.