Last month, I posted some photos after a family trip to Washington, DC. But there was one I couldn’t share at the time.
Okay, I guess I could have shared it with a caption that said “Here I am outside the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.”
But that would have led to comments like “Who’s on the phone?” and “Why do you look so awestruck and goofy?”
And I would have had to give one of those cagey, secretive, I’m-not-allowed-to-tell-you-yet answers that frustrate blog readers so much. So I kept quiet, mostly. But agent-goddess literaticat says I can spill the beans now. It was her on the phone, telling me about the news that hit Publishers Marketplace today.
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| Children’s: Middle grade | Kate Messner’s MARTY MCGUIRE, FROG PRINCESS, an illustrated chapter book about a second-grade tomboy who would much rather be a scientist than a floofy pink ballerina; she is cast as the reluctant lead princess in the class play, with wildly unexpected and comic results, to Kara LaReau at Scholastic, in a two-book deal, for publication in Summer 2010, by Jennifer Laughran at Andrea Brown Literary Agency. | ||||
By the way, a bunch of my LiveJournal friends share the credit for this sale – I revised MARTY this past winter, under the encouragement of jbknowles‘ January Revision Club. Thanks, Jo and friends, for the community cheers along the way.
As for my photo…if there were a caption, it would simply say “EEEEEEEE!!!!!!”
After Jenn shared the news, I closed my phone. Then I skipped the entire length of the National Mall. I don’t think my feet have touched the ground since.