Write's conference.
June 18th 2007 14:25
Good morning everyone,
Hope everybody had a great weekend. Friday morning, we drove to Orlando for a chlildren book writer's conference. We didn't stay in the hotel where it was being held, because it was pretty expensive, especially for two nights. I was going to go by myself for one night and return right after the conference, but my wife said that the kids would like Orlando, so we took them as well. While I went to the conference on Saturday, they went to Dinosaur World. My kids had a great time, except that my oldest daughter fell into some gravel and scraped her knees and hands. Poor baby, she was all scraped and hurt. She had trouble walking for the rest of the weekend. My son and youngest daughter both complained that their ears hurt them. We took them to the doctor yesterday and were told that they had swimmer's ear. That is just great, because they are home this week for the in-between time between school and camp and now we can't even go swimming. Should be a fun week in the house.
As far as the writer's conference, there were around 150 people there, who were broken down into smaller groups, depending on what you were interested in. I chose the middle-grade section. I had trouble deciding between that and the young adult section. Figured I would try that one this time and the young adult one next time. The two women who spoke in our section were editors in a publishing company. I also thought I had an in when they mentioned that they were from Brooklyn, same place as me. I made sure to mention it during introductions. This way, if I ever submit anything to them, I will reference it during my letter. So , there I am thinking that everything is perfect and they will read the first page and offer me a contract right away. Instead, they made suggestions to critique the first page. That's all you submitted, was the first page. They definitely gave good suggestions to enhance appeal to an editor. When i got home, I immediately went to work on it, following their advice. Again, keeping my finger's crossed that this thing pays off. It is a dream of mine. Let's hope.
Again, the Mets piss me off. I am lucky that they took one game this weekend, but you have no idea how much it irks me to even lose one game to the yanks. I hate this. The Mets need another bat and another pitcher, quickly. They are also not playing with energy and I see things like not running balls out and playing very lackadaisically. That I hate. I don't let my teams just go through the motions, I hate to see it on a professional team. Randolph better turn things around fast and rip into this team. I have a bad feeling about it right now. Anyway, going to run now and hope everyone has a great day.
Later,
Jonathan
Hope everybody had a great weekend. Friday morning, we drove to Orlando for a chlildren book writer's conference. We didn't stay in the hotel where it was being held, because it was pretty expensive, especially for two nights. I was going to go by myself for one night and return right after the conference, but my wife said that the kids would like Orlando, so we took them as well. While I went to the conference on Saturday, they went to Dinosaur World. My kids had a great time, except that my oldest daughter fell into some gravel and scraped her knees and hands. Poor baby, she was all scraped and hurt. She had trouble walking for the rest of the weekend. My son and youngest daughter both complained that their ears hurt them. We took them to the doctor yesterday and were told that they had swimmer's ear. That is just great, because they are home this week for the in-between time between school and camp and now we can't even go swimming. Should be a fun week in the house.
Later,
Jonathan
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