So my neck is fine. My black eye is fading. And I’d like to thank Quill and Quire for a lovely review of Getting the Girl, which is holding on at #11! Also on the good news front, many thanks to Kirkus for choosing Getting the Girl as one of the Top Teen Books for 2008!
I’m mostly finished touring for this year and am looking forward to getting back to my writing. I’m a little behind, but I think it’s manageable. I should be finished the second draft of my novel for adults (and young adults who enjoy novels of agricultural dysfunction) in a month or so if all goes well. My non-fiction should be ready early in the new year.
I have nothing to complain about.
Okay. I do have one thing to complain about. I can’t vote in the U.S. election and not being able to help is killing me. I want to wear Obama pins around and stand in voting line-ups and dress my dog in Obama-wear and feel all hopeful about the possibility of change but not look like a total delusional who doesn’t know what country she’s in. I guess I’ll just have to watch events unfold from afar. Go America! Go Obama!
Hey, I have an idea! I can dress Tango in a winter coat with Obama’s name emblazoned on the back. That way, when planes fly over his field, the people onboard, some of whom may be Americans eligible to vote, will see the slogan and realize that this is such an important election that even Canadian dressage horses have formed an opinion. Tango’s the right horse for the job. He is all about hope, including the hope of getting an apple or some other form of food for very little work.
I will create this Equines for Obama Advertisement at NO CHARGE to the Obama campaign! I feel so empowered and part of.
I could write: “Palin is a Crazy B#@%&!” on Tango’s back, but he hates it when I go negative. Anyway, I suspect Obama and Tango would prefer I come up with something wittier and more penetrating. Maybe Tango has some ideas.
Finally, a HUGE congratulations to Elissa Vann Struth, who won the Surrey International Writers Conference Writing Contest for her story, “Mall Girl”! Elissa took my Novel Writing Workshop through the UBC Writing Centre last year and I’m not surprised to hear that she’s making a splash with her work.
Now I must get back to work on my books and that Equines for Obama Mobile Field Advertisement Unit. Good thing Tango’s got a long back. I can make a logo large enough that it will be visible from space…