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Writers of the Future - Golden Pen Award Oct 2021

So there was this event. In Hollywood. Right next to the Eternals world premier… no, not that event, our event - Writers and Illustrators of the Future:

I won the first quarter of 2021 - the large blue trophy… which included the conference, hotel, flights, and publishing in volume 37.

Then - what I wasn’t expecting and had totally talked myself into believing one of the others would win…

I won the ginormous red trophy too - Grand prize for the year - the Golden Pen Award.

There may have been shock… and tears. What a privilege and what an adventure! I just finished reading through the anthology and every story was amazing - I still can’t quite believe I won.

1st Place, 1st Place! WOTF 2020 Q1

I won I won I won!!! First place… I may have cried at the person notifying me. Poor Joni. To be fair, it had been a very long week at work, and I hung up on someone else to talk with her, and then she said I won…!

Check out the Writers of the Future post here.

At some point, I should take a pic with all my Honorable and Silver Honorable Mentions… just to share with everyone else who is feeling down and remind them to persist. I have a lot, y’all. I’ve been working toward this for a couple years now, entering every quarter, so if you’re working toward it too, know I believe in you! Keep working on your craft, keep writing, keep submitting.

Persist!

Reboot - and Writers Of The Future... almost

In an unprecedented (for me) move, I’m going to post twice this week… once today and once for the blog hop on Wednesday. I thought about spacing these out “better”, but then I decided with the coronapacolypse and the end of the world (that doesn’t seem to be ending) I would be better off doing both now. Before something else happens and I forget or run out of time or just can’t face it for a while.

So!

In reverse order… I got a phone call last week to tell me one of my stories IS A FINALIST in the Writers of the Future contest! Woo! It’s being judged this week and next week with 7 other stories and then they’ll let us know how we placed.

Finally jumping from Honorable Mentions and Silver Honorable Mentions to Finalist (no matter where I place) makes me jump up and down and squee. (If I knew how to emoji that here, I’d do it!)

Second, my short story REBOOT is on presale now - another win for me! It has a beautiful cover, thanks to my friend Cat (see the acknowledgments) and I’m excited to share it with you all in May.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble and I just realized I haven’t put it on Smashwords which distributes to Apple and Kobo and other places, so I still have some work to do!

Please reach out to me if you like something I’ve written, or if I’ve distracted you from the present, even if only for a little while.

Stay healthy and stay safe!