So apparently, I’ve been living under a rock. (Or a receiving blanket?) I just found out that Zombies vs. Unicorns was named a School Library Journal Best Book of 2010, was placed on the 2011 Tayshas Reading List, and won an Audiophile Earphone Award for the audiobook version. Good for us!
The other point of interest is that we got a foreign sale for Rampant: Grasindo in Indonesia has bought the rights.More info on when the book will be available when I’ve got it.
And finally, Ascendant made the Daily Beast’s Best Young Adult Novels of 2010 list.
Also, the baby has been asleep for seven and a half hours now. W00T!
The sun has not yet made an appearance in 2011, which is why I’m already falling down for the year in terms of walking Rio. But we’re definitely going out today — and it looks like the sun will be, too.
The writing — well, the baby has been really sleepy for the past few days, which means I’ve had the opportunity to write. But the muscles have atrophied somewhat in my months of maternity leave. I have written and discarded about a thousand words this weekend. Now part of this is I’m starting a new short story and I’ve has a few false starts, which are very normal for me, in terms of voice. I’m trying something very different with this short story — because, hey, if you can’t experiment in your short fiction, where can you? For instance, I experimented with present tense in “The Care and Feeding of Your Baby Killer Unicorn” and with dueling third person narratives in “Errant.” I do not have a title for this short story yet, but I’m kind of madly in love with the heroine’s first name.Today we go for attempt #3 — hopefully, this one will be the keeper.
So that’s what I’m up to on this third day of the year. What about you?
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