February Update

So, I’ve got some bad news. Well, I don’t know if I’d consider it bad news, but it certainly made me cry. I didn’t make it past the first stage of ABNA (you should see the January update if you have no clue what I’m talking about).

Fortunately for me, I had a list of things to do in case this happened- the first thing was to get Starbucks, which I did. Next was to cry, which I actually did before I got Starbucks (that could have been embarrassing otherwise). And the next was to enter Driving Change in another competition. It’s a contest for authors ages 17-26 by Deep Sea Publishing, and I’m hoping that my complete failure at ABNA turns out to actually be a good thing. And I’m actually lying when I say it’s a complete failure, because it made me finish my story and rewrite it in about three weeks, so that’s a good thing.

Anyway, the deadline for the DSP contest is the 28th of February, but I’m doing a final reread and hoping to submit it by the end of the week. I have a test tomorrow and a paper due, so we’ll see how that goes. The winner for the contest will be announced March 17th, so that is probably when you (my nonexistent readers) should expect to hear from me next. Keep your fingers crossed.

As you probably know by now, I like to plan. That includes backup plans. If I don’t get anywhere with the DSP Contest, I’m hoping to submit to a new imprint called Swoon Reads. That’s the backup for if my backup doesn’t work out. I don’t know what I’ll do after that.

A note on queries: waiting is hard. I’ve got a handy spreadsheet to keep track of the emails I’ve sent, but it’s probably not necessary because I don’t go a day without checking my email and hoping to see some good news. I’ve sent out eleven queries, four of which have come back as a no already. It’s been almost a month for most of them, so hopefully I’ll be getting some responses soon. If anything nice does happen, you’ll likely be hearing from me before March 17th.

Kristin

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