Spring Break!
Oh dear, I'm going on vacation tomorrow, and I realize it
already appears I have been on vacation! It's been almost two weeks since my
last post, how does that happen so fast?
Well, like they say, time flies when you're having fun, and
2014 has been fun!
I had my first short story "Copernica" published in
the January edition of Spaceports & Spidersilk. If you enjoy daring post dragon apocalypse teen angst, then this is for you! (Smashwords or Barnes & Noble)
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I learned a lot during ReViMo (Revision Month) in January,
and I'm still having a good time in ReViMo's Facebook group. Plus I won the
Children's Book Academy's Grammar Groove course with Miranda Paul. Her lessons
have been very helpful far beyond grammar advice.
I won 3rd place in Susanna Hill's March Madness
story (Yay! Thank you everyone!) and had a great time writing about Princess
Peabody, too.
[Insert break here
where children get strep throat and the main bathroom is being remodeled while
picture book edits start to pile up.]
April is bringing the first RhyPiBoMo, and holy cow is Angie Karcher putting on a poetry show. She has guest posts by
poets and also creates an educational poetry lesson with each post.
Plus I completed my registration for the NJ SCBWI conference
in June (which if you've registered for a conference before you know involves
26 1/2 pieces of paper, cross referencing of times and agents and workshops, and
leaving time for kidlit socialization - dizzying!)
I think a brief vacation in the warm sun after a great start
to the year and the ALL-WORK-AND-NO-FUN-MAKES-JACK-A-DULL-BOY kind of winter we
had. I've decided to not bring any revisions (officially) with me, though I'm
sure my relaxed brain will be gnawing on the stories anyhow. I will be bringing an empty notebook which I
hope to not bring back empty.
Happy Spring Break!
Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cathy!
DeleteAh! SCBWI! I gotta sign up, too!
ReplyDeleteHave a great vacay!
Yes sir! Get your sign up done. It's fairly complicated:(
DeleteHave fun! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Erik! Hope you got a few days off school too.
DeleteHi Lauri, have sent you a message on g+. couldn't find your email.. :) hope that's ok :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Catherine - I love your Princess and the Stinky Cheese illustration - can't wait to see it in the contest!
DeleteYOu've been busy, Lauri! Congrats on placing with your Princess Peabody story! Well, you deserve the break. By the time you read this, I imagine you back in full swing, back to the grind, back to reality...welcome back. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, you were right even though I've been back for a week I'm just finally back in the swing!
DeleteYOu've been busy, Lauri! Congrats on placing with your Princess Peabody story! Well, you deserve the break. By the time you read this, I imagine you back in full swing, back to the grind, back to reality...welcome back. :)
ReplyDeleteI am just now finally feeling back to the grind (a week later!) Unfortunately, my mind is in a turbulent place where I want to work on 100 things all at once!
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