Accomplishments

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

I have a non-writing related accomplishment!

I finally caught up on the topics that had like, 100+ posts in this group! yay!

[Allison]

Sweet!

[Brigid ✩]

Accomplishments ... ahhhhmmmm
A literary agent asked for my manuscript. :] Haven't got word back yet ... O_o *anxious*

[Veronica, What the neck!?]

That is a super duper awesome accomplishment Brigid! :D

[S.S.]

Way to go Brigid!!!

Your writing is super.

[Brigid ✩]

Thanks! :D

[Brigid ✩]

Wow haven't updated this in forever. :P That literary agent totally rejected me. I gave up on that book altogether, actually ... at least for now. Now I'm trying to get an agent for a different manuscript. So far I've had four partial requests and four full requests. Although pretty much all of them have turned into rejections. Blah.

Well, I also entered the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest this year, in which I was a SEMIFINALISTTTT!!! which is the top 50 out of 5,000. So that's pretty good, I guess. ;) I got a Publishers Weekly review of my manuscript in the quarterfinals round, which saaaid:

"Two teens connect under very unusual circumstances in this well-crafted novel. Both seventeen, Cassandra is a psychic and Jason has just died in a car crash. Cassandra is closed off socially, suffering from dreams of the souls that live in the Otherworld. Jason, after his death, makes a deal with the Lord of the Underworld to be returned to his past life, not realizing that he will be a ghost. When Cassandra is the only one who can see him in his ghostly form, Jason pleads with her to help him. Cassandra agrees, thinking that Jason might be able to help her lift the curse of psychic ability that has affected all the women in her family. A solution is presented to them, thanks to Celeste, a spirit from the Otherworld and Elaine, a ghost like Jason. If they are able to journey through the Underworld, Jason can regain his soul and Cassandra can lose her psychic ability. But this journey has never been completed by a human--will they be the first to achieve this? Told in two voices, these engaging main characters live and breathe on the page. While the idea of a journey to the Underworld is not new, there are interesting twists, such as Jason's ghostly state. The plot is well-paced and thoughtfully developed, the Underworld clearly established without long passages of exposition. Combining romance and action with a dual character study, this manuscript is a wonderful, thrilling read."

WOO!