*beam*

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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