A couple of weeks ago I had a couple of exciting things happen–book-wise. To set the stage, I need to back up. Specifically to November of last year (2017).
Last November, I won first place in the young adult novel category in the creative writing contest put on by the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. The book is currently titled “By the Blood of the Witches”.
- Me and my other half at the awards ceremony
It was super exciting. 🙂
The Division of Arts and Museums
decided to do some author readings with their contest winners and local, established authors in their category. So, this September
I was privileged to do a library reading with Carol Lynch Williams.
- Exactly none of those books are mine. 😀
Since I don’t have an extensive library of books to fall back on–I was just going to read from the book that won the contest–I fell back on my experience as a professor. . .
And I did a PowerPoint. 😀 (So I at least had something to look at while people slept 😉 )
I was also really happy to have Carol sign one of her books for me.
A few of my ANWA sisters (my writing group) surprised me and showed up for support. They rock!
Also- My first officially released story came out that week too!
It is called “The Dragon’s Maid”. It’s a fairy tale retelling of a Norwegian fairy tale–Master Maid.
It is on a free reading app called StoryShop. (Find it at http://fictionite.io/ ) The stories are released an ‘episode’ at a time and I currently have two episodes out. I even have an author page on the FV press page!
It was a pretty momentous week for me.
There's Magic in Story, 