I just had a wonderful conversation with Jessica Wulf, the contest coordinator for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, whom I called to tell that I’d sold my first book(s!) and who just glowed with happiness even over the phone. She’s a really *wonderful* woman, and it keeps stunning me to think, “Next year I won’t be able to submit to that contest!” When I went to the RMFW conference last year, the last thing she said to me, on the way out, was, “I hope you won’t be able to…
hooray!
Hooray for Garrett! And my agent has a livejournal! The internet is being quite hateful today. *claws through it*
HOORAY!
I left Jennifer Jackson email last night saying I’d be up and functional around 10:30am her time if she wanted to give me a call. She did, and we talked for an hour, so now I know lots and *lots* of things. They don’t charge mailing fees, they do take the payments directly from the publisher and then cut the author a check, which contractually is done within 10 business days although she said Christmas always goofs things up. The only time, though, she said, that checks don’t get cut…
HOORAY!
I left Jennifer Jackson email last night saying I’d be up and functional around 10:30am her time if she wanted to give me a call. She did, and we talked for an hour, so now I know lots and *lots* of things. They don’t charge mailing fees, they do take the payments directly from the publisher and then cut the author a check, which contractually is done within 10 business days although she said Christmas always goofs things up. The only time, though, she said, that checks don’t get cut…
such a geek :)
You will either get this, or you will not. :) I got my Salvador Larroca X-Women lithograph today (it came in an *entirely* unnecessarily large tube!) and this evening we went over to the art gallery to get it framed. It took quite a while to decide on the framing, because lots of colors, very vibrant, and we had a mat we liked a lot that we couldn’t find a frame to go with, so after a while we switched mats… …and because we are Great Big Geeks, we ended…