It’s unanimous.

My crit group thinks I should be an agent. This is not surprising as my skill set is heavy on organizing people and schmoozing. Being bluntly honest and having a bunch of knowledge about the children’s book industry is right up there too. If only I could apply my wonderful critiquing skills, agent and editor research, and conference schmoozing to actually write and sell my manuscripts. Then there is living in New York. Hmmm… maybe when the kids grow up I’ll reinvent myself as a chic New York literary agent. Of course, I’d have to wear heels, start at the bottom again earning $20,000 a year, and deal with papercuts from opening the mail.

To Do

I keep reading everyone’s good news and unfortunately don’t have anything to report except that it is now 35 degrees instead of 5. That is certainly a change for the better. I hear that the warming trend will continue through next week and this assures me that mud season is close at hand. Things to do:
1. Finish Mom’s postcard
2. Finish My postcard
3. Continue to work on camp novel. I’ve been at 2 pages a day for the past week or so.
4. Continue to work on poem collection. (totally neglected)
5. Update manuscript tracker program and see what needs to go out
6. Be ready for NESCBWI crit submission, that brochure should come any week now.
7. Stop spending so much time on Live Journal

Today is Purim

Which is the Jewish celebration of the story of Esther. Queen Esther, to refresh your memory, spoke out to stop the slaughter of the Jews in Persia. The Jews fought back and won. Which brings us to the basic summary of most Jewish holidays (I did not make this up…) “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat.”

However, today we started our eating with a fun kid’s carnival which started with a great costume parade. There were many games, prizes, facepainting and — da, da, da, daaaaa… Balloon animals with Anna. That’s me. So you have your choice of a dog, or a giraffe (long necked dog) or a mouse (big eared dog) or an elephant (long nosed dog). Sometimes it is your choice, sometimes not. I can make an airplane too. So now you know another of my many talents. I’m available for Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, birthdays, weddings, etc. You get it.