Interesting News

My mom got worried when she read the previous post and another friend seemed concerned as well. Figure I might as well tell you guys: I'm still kickin'. When 90% of your life is going well, you can't really complain too much. I would say the 10% that isn't going is well has much to do with my work hours, which are about to change with the end of the season, and that will pretty much put me back on an even keel. So just hang with me, it's not too long now. Two weeks exactly until our last event!

Last Thursday, I heard a lot of news. Some of it I can share now, some of it I might share later if things do end up panning out. But it definitely seemed like an unusual day, like there had been a jam in the universal pipe and all of a sudden things got cleared up and flowed out. Some examples:

I'd sent a couple of chapters to an agent back in January. I knew of him through some mutual friends. A couple of weeks after I sent the packet to him, he sent me an email saying something like, "You're at the top of my to-read pile and I'll get back to you next week." Well, I didn't hear from him. And I just sort of figured, either he got busy or he wasn't interested, and I was so busy myself I didn't pursue it.

He called me on Thursday and said he'd been meaning to get back to me for a while. He said the writing was "very good, smooth, disciplined, and easy to read." But that he wasn't the right person for it because he tends to like dense, more complicated writing that he then has to "work like hell to sell." We talked for a while and I got the impression that he likes to work with edgier material and that my stuff is perhaps too mainstream for him. Then he gave me the name of three editors who are actively looking for work like mine, which I greatly appreciate. And he said he would write them a note telling them he had recommended I send them my chapters. I'm working on query letters this week.

I also got my hair cut on Thursday. I chopped off about 7 inches of hair. I love it.

I've been on a waiting list for a weaving class since January. On Thursday I got a call that there is finally an opening and I started class on Saturday.

I have two meetings this week, which, if they go well, I will tell you about in the next few days. Those also got set up on Thursday.

While I was getting my hair cut, my car got hit in the parking lot of the salon, but no one left a note. My car is now in a body shop, getting an estimate on the damage and I have a rental. (The damage isn't too horrible and the car is driveable. These kinds of things are what insurance is for, right?)

So that was last Thursday. A very busy, news-filled day.

In home news, we've almost finished my office. We are still waiting on some custom blinds we ordered and we have little paint touch ups here and there. Also, we're looking for a rug. But Nate put all the new hardware on the doors and I think my new office looks really snazzy. Perfect environment for my creative goals.

So, life is sweet, and change is on the horizon. The wind is about to change ...