rachel speaks
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
I'm back!!!
I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted here. My life has been too busy the past couple months -- I really need a vacation!I worked on my chapter's unpublished contest through much of the summer -- Romance Writers Ink, best chapter in RWA! Where the Magic Begins, best contest in RWA! Years ago I used to enter contests without ever giving a thought to the people who run them. Now that I've helped run both published and unpublished contests, all I can say is WOW! This is one tough job. Due to circumstances beyond our control,
Practically everyone we dealt with, entrants and judges alike, was wonderful, though there was the occasional whiny entrant ("My judges' comments were worthless!" -- translates to "judges didn't like my entry, so they're obviously stupid.") And there was one really stinky judge -- an editor with a NY publishing house -- my lips are sealed as to her name, but she's definitely on our Never F*cking Again list.
And isn't this a hoot? After Liz and I knocked ourselves out getting this contest wrapped up in only about six weeks, we started hearing about all the other contests that take 4-6 months!! Slackers!
Then came our chapter's conference, for which I was chair. Cimarron Dreamin' -- best conference in RWA!! It was too much fun. My editor, Caitlin Alexander, was there. She's a doll, though far too young to be so talented. We had some great speakers and met some great people.
Now . . . I can breathe. Get my life back to normal. Write again. And blog again! How cool is that?
