WOOHOO! Last week I was Long Listed for 100 Stories for Queensland anthology. I couldn’t believe it! I danced around the office in raptures and did a winning lap around the house. I even wrote the ‘SQUEEE … Published Soon’ blog, ready to send out when the results came in.
Today I frantically checked the 100 Stories website, once … twice … three times, searching for my name.
But DRAT I wasn’t there. I wasn’t chosen for the Final Cut … Had I jinxed myself?
What did I do?
After several deep sighs, I sucked in my bitter disappointment and congratulated the 100 writers who made the winning cut. The talented line-up of authors is incredible … Sean Williams, Krissy Kneen, Alan Baxter, Jo Hart and Anita Heiss to name a few. Check out the full list … http://networkedblogs.com/dXpPa
Congratulations to Jodi Cleghorn and all the team at eMergent Publishing for organising this amazing anthology in such a short space of time.
Writers across the world donated their stories to a special cause. Every cent of profit will go towards the Queensland Flood Appeal when it hits the shelves in March.
Can’t wait to read this inspiring book!
What’s next?
Winning this anthology competition wasn’t meant to be … Such is the writer’s life.
Meanwhile I’ll keep tapping away at the computer, rewriting my fantasy short story The Mandolin Player.
I’ll send this manuscript out to a competition or to a publisher until it finds its HOME.
and like with all my writing … I’ll NEVER, EVER GIVE UP.
Right now, publishers are considering ME AND HER: a Memoir of Madness and Kids Sci-Fi Josh and the It for publication … SQUEEE …
My day will come. Fingers crossed XX
