Working on my presentation, “Get Known Before the Book Deal,” for the Writer’s Digest Books/BEA Writing Conference.
No problem with the presentation but the excitement is causing butterflies in my belly that could probably fly me to New York without any help from JetBlue!
I have heard that excitement can be as hard on the ol’ body as stress. After all the excitement I have had this year, I can testify…it’s true. You have to take it easy and slow on this stuff.
I’ve been so busy, I hadn’t been able to bring myself to look at who-all is going to be at the BookExpo itself. It’s pulse-quickening, I’ll tell you. And it’s hard to work afterwards.
Breathe. Breathe. Okay.
Here are links to the online homes of some of the folks who I’ll see there and can’t wait to meet:
Keynote Speaker: Novelist, Jodi Picoult
Other presenters:
Donald Maas, Donald Maas Literary Agency
John Warner, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Moi!
Keith Flynn, founder/editor of the Asheville Poetry Review, author of The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz and Memory
Les Edgerton, author of Hooked, Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go
Maria Schneider, editor, Writer’s Digest
Okay, that gets us through the keynote and the first round of breakout sessions.
More later. Must go plant feet back in ground. I am feeling like just about the most blessed writer on the planet!
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