Critique Submission Day!

Nothing like waiting until the last minute! Today was the deadline for sending in my picture book manuscripts to be critiqued by local author, Kathy Duval and Heather Alexander, an editor for Dial Books for Young Readers. Whew, I made it! Got it postmarked by today and I am feeling good about the changes I have made to my story over the course of this year. I am eager to hear the feedback they will provide.

I will get to sit down with each of these two ladies during two seperate 12 minute one-on-one face time meetings at the Houston SCBWI annual conference on March 31st. They will give their professional advice about what works and what doesn't. Last year was my first year to attend the conference and the first time anyone had professionally looked at my writing, so I was pretty nervous. I am feeling much more relaxed and just plain excited about it this year.  I really enjoyed last year's conference. I felt like my head was going to explode from information overload. Looking forward to cramming even more information in there this year!