Thursday, January 26, 2012

Squealing Until the Cows Come Home

What IS that Noise?
This week has certainly very squeal-tastic for me. Gosh I’m not sure what order to put them all in. I think it all started with Anne’s blog last Sunday, snowballed over to Mark’s announcement (which I read twice once on MWi and once on Sapphicscribe), and tumbled into a snowman with Saffina’s Musings and The Stone Church News.


·         Two Sunday’s ago I entered a contest on Anne R.Allen’s Blog to win a sighed copy of “Walter’s Purple Heart” or a signed copy of “Pay it Forward” both by Catherine Ryan Hyde. This weekend I discovered that I’d won “Walter’s Purple Heart”. OMG SQUEE! This squeal lasted the longest as I not only did so in my responding e-mail to Catherine, but also in instant messaging to Charley, on Charlie’s post to my facebook wall, in an e-mail to Charley (I hope her eardrums are okay) and finally on Anne’s Blog where she announced the winner.

·         Both Mark’s Blog and Saffina’s Author Blog announced what’s going on with MWiDP. I was so excited I wrote a poem for a comment, because, OMG their publishing venture looks super sweet. So sweet that I’m tempted to ditch the whole query process and just go Indie with them. But that’s not the only thing that made be squeal. I’m also squealing because I can’t wait until “St. Malroy’s Forever!” is published by MWiDP . Which my favorite peeps Miriam and Charley are helping to write!

·         A couple weeks ago Saffina stated she was “Banningthe Bull” on her personal blog. I took a deep breath and offered to give her an excerpt from what, I hope, will be my premier novel. In her most recent blog post she mentioned me as being “adorably excitable”, along with the fact that I’ll be first of her Illuminating Indies series, January 28th, 2012! SQUEEEEE I’m chewing my nails right now as I await my hubby’s review of what it going to be posted.

·         On the smaller scale, I wrote an episode for my church’s newsletter, but hadn’t hear a word as to wither or not it would be included. Lo and behold I received my copy of The Stone Church News,January/February 2012 issue and found it; one whole glorious page (no. 14) dedicated to my story! *giggles* On Sunday, one of the parishioner said he liked it and asked if I was a writer. I very proudly stated – Yes, though I’m not published yet, but I’m working on it. I also got two thumbs up from our priest as passed by my Sunday School class, though that could have been about anything!


So there you have it. I’m squealing yet again just writing and posting this list. It’s been an exciting week! Gosh if you could just see the jitters in my hands. Yup, I’m totally feeling adorably excitable now, even if my hubby might not like the phrase so much. (But you know what, sometimes it fits him too. *wink*)


:} Cathryn Leigh

P.S. You may also have noticed I've tweeked my look and started to add pages. Exciting huh! :}

6 comments:

  1. *starts bouncing around like a crazy critter* WELL DONE ELO! You've had the luck of a jammy dodger this past week eh? Let's hope it keeps up!

    And, if the trad. pebbling route doesn't work for you, you know where Mim and I will be. We'll tie Mark to a chair and make him read your stuff if we have to! xD

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    1. * pubbing. Curse you Steve the Mac, do not presume to know my thoughts! xD

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    2. *giggles* Hopefully you won't have to do that to Mark. He'll get a taste of my stuff on Sunday (presuming he reads his partner in crime's blog). Can you believe it SUNDAY!

      I might forgo traditional pebbing and just go for traditional pubbing. it's such a toss up right now, especially if MWiDP can do paper copies too.

      GAH! I need to finish PT edits so I can hunker down and get to work on ripping and revisioning Sarah's Phoenix!

      :} Cathryn

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    3. I concur! I've got my SQUEE! dance all ready for the end as well! *grins*

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  2. Loving the new pages! You are really progressing:)) There is a lot going on in your life to squee about! Good for you. Saffi and Mark do have a great venture going.

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    1. I know, don't thay? :} Glad you like the pages and thanks for stopping by Tonya!*huggles*

      :} Cathryn

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