Aftermath (and decisions…and food!)
I know, I still need to post about my Very Exciting Week. The trouble is, that week kind of turned into two very exciting weeks, and I'm still low on sleep! And high on work, including planning my next-but-one YA book. The next will be Linked's sequel, of course, but I'm holding off on starting that properly until I've talked over editorial revisions for Linked in case they change anything.
Abstract and I went out for a celebratory breakfast on Saturday while the girls were at dance and drama. No champagne, but we did have lots of delicious coffee and I had Eggs Benedict, which I've never had before. Then we did a little shopping, went into Waterstones to see where my book would be shelved (assuming the UK rights sell – Sparkler will be SO disappointed if they don't!), admired the covers of the Simon & Schuster books (specifically Hush, Hush) and bought the girls some books as part of the celebrations.
Oh, and I made a decision! I'm going to go to the RWA Conference in 2012. I am SO excited. I've been wanting to go for ages, and always promised myself I'd go when I had something appropriate to pitch to agents. Well, now I don't, because I have an agent (haha – still celebrating that one!). But I'd still like to go do the networking thing, hear about the industry firsthand, and meet up with a whole bunch of people I've known for years but rarely if ever met in person.
In the category of small happy things, the girls and I have been having an excellent time trying out snack boxes from Graze.com. They're designed to make sure you snack on things that are (mostly) good for you rather than grabbing empty calories in the form of cakes and crisps, so I thought they might be a bit dull and worthy. But they're oh so not. They're full of these dear little punnets of snack mixes (olives, tiny loaves of bread, seeds, nuts, dried fruit – including one mix called Sticky Chocolate Pudding that's made of milk chocolate drops, green raisins and jumbo raisins and counts as one of your five a day) and are totally delicious. Every time one arrives through the letterbox it's like getting a box of chocolates you don't have to feel guilty about finishing in a day!
If you're in the UK, go to the site and enter this code – M19P6C9A – you get a free box.
