
Last week brought some disappointments, as the SPUR and WILLA results were announced (no luck in those contests) and I was not a finalist in readerviews.com's literary awards. Competition is very stiff, and that makes me more determined than ever to improve my writing.
But I did receive an honorable mention in the Marilyn Brown LDS Novel Competition. Marilyn Brown is a writer and person I respect very much, and to get a nod from this competition is a validation of my work. I hope to meet her one day.
I also got a good review from Carolyn Howard Johnson. See my #2 blog. So far we have these things in common: we both wrote novels about polygamy, we both have won some of the same awards, she'll be attending the Erma Bombeck workshop next week as a presenter, and I'm going as a first-time participant. She teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers Program and I'm thinking about enrolling in it. She contributed to a literary cookbook and I wrote one. She is an Aries and so am I. We will both have birthdays during the workshop so we plan to celebrate. I can't wait to meet this multi-talented and accomplished woman!
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Too bad about your disappointments. But, look at you not skipping a beat and moving on!
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