12:13 pm January 1, 2011Made It! (just in the nick of time)
The day after Christmas, I left to spend three days alone in Vegas, writing like a crazy person. There was a lot of room service (I’ll be honest, there was cheesecake at 1am). But yesterday was the deadline — the end of the road. Pond of Pretties had to be postmarked no later than the 31st to be submitted to the Delacorte Press contest…
And everything that could have gone wrong, book wise, yesterday… did go wrong. I lost 50 pages of rewrites somewhere… gone. Still gone, still lost… still driving me nuts trying to figure out where they could be. My printer jammed, about a bazillion times. I called it all kinds of mean names that made my kids’ ears smoke. I accused it of having no legal father… which I’m sure is true of every printer ever made, but still — not nice of me to point out. When a second printer was called into action, and I had to drive several miles away to get to it, I realized that the gas light in my car has been on for about 86 days (that may be a slight exaggeration), and feared I’d run out of gas on the way to the post office. Keep in mind: New Year’s Eve, about 15 minutes before the post office closed.
Gah!
But the writing gods were smiling down, friends…
signed, sealed, delivered. well, not actually delivered yet… but I did splurge for the delivery confirmation.
Wish me luck, guys.
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hey me… Yeah, I wondered about the mailing address thing, but figured my handwriting is crappy enough that no one would be able to read it. Am I wrong? And I’d love to know what your fans or haters sent to your house…
Comment by SuzyG — January 1, 2011 @ 4:33 pm
Ooh – good luck! And thanks for your address – now I can stalk you once you are famous.
Comment by Heather — January 1, 2011 @ 10:05 pm
Way to go babe! I couldn’t be more proud of you. It was a real team effort to get it printed and dropped off at the PO on time. Go Gale Force.
Comment by The Hubby — January 2, 2011 @ 9:57 pm
Hurray!!!! Did you really check yourself into a hotel for 3 days by yourself? How cool is that.
Comment by Diana — January 4, 2011 @ 6:22 am
Great job and Good Luck!
Comment by Yolanda K. — January 12, 2011 @ 7:47 am