Sunday Update!

I don't know why but this weekend feels like it's been a week long already--because it was jam packed full of awesome. Obviously.

Yesterday Donna and I made the trek to Lehigh, Pennsylvania to see the query shark herself, Janet Reid. We also got to mee the lovely Suzie Townsend (who reps the totally awesome and amazing Sarah Wylie!) and Joanna Volpe of too many writers of awesome to count, as well as Janet's intern Anna who is going to intern for Little Brown, but was really fun to meet too and helpful.


Donna and I are planning to post something more formal over at the FNC but I shall give a quick debriefing here. We started at a talk led by Janet on the art of the query letter which was pretty helpful and informative. She's pretty funny in person. And things were going well...but then...I discovered that when it was time for Janet to hand back the queries for everyone participating in her workshop (like me!), I discovered she never recieved my query. At all.

That kind of defeated the whole purpose of the workshop--because she critiqued the queries.

Anyway, it turns out that there was this imaginary deadline that you needed a secret code to have in order to access the date and know when it would be too late to send in your query. Of course!

And I was accused of sending in my query late though I was never given the secret code for this deadline that no one wanted to tell anyone about.

But it turns out....I sent my query in before the invisible deadline, though apparently my issues with gmail were just not having it and so...my query never made it. Thanks a lot gmail!

There was a minor panic attack for 30 seconds....

Followed by the awesome Suzie Townsend who calmly told me I could email her my query on the spot and she'd critique it.

AWESOME! Because Suzie reps YA...so actually...you know, sometimes things don't work out for a reason. Because they can work out better.

However...

Janet is still really scary and went around the room asking a bunch of questions and by the end of the day....I was just like huh...what...is my name Frankie?

So...I have decided to register for CJ Redwine's Query Workshop because I want to kick my query's butt and drag it through the mud a couple of times so it knows whose boss!


And...I filmed my Webcam for Writers commercial last night (watch out Shannon! Your dare is coming)...AND I filmed the scene from Clueless (OMG too many dares!).

I haven't seen any of the Webcam footage yet, but its probably going to be hilarious.

I hope.

Clueless on the other hand....

I don't know if I could make a bigger fool of myself. I dressed up as Christian...I dressed up as Cher...oh and I even dressed up as Spar-a-tacus Spartacus and his master.

So....only because I like all of you, I'm posting the Clueless scene, because it's ridiculous.

Tomorrow.

Webcam for Writers will premiere later this week.

So yeah that's my update. I've got some WIPs to read, my last 2 chapters to revise and...a psych class to prep for. Wheeee!

See ya tomorrow!!!!