filled with glee
October 20, 2010
I know that sometimes celebrating one’s achievements can seem like boasting and make people want to stab you, but I also think you, dear reader, can appreciate I’ve had a rough couple of years in many ways, and that the odd writing success is a shining beam of hope, sometimes the only thing that keeps me going.
Which is to say, please don’t judge me that I squeed and teared up and beamed like an idiot when I got my contributor’s copies of this today:
I’m in a book! With Jennifer Crusie! (And some other fabulous people.) And soon people will be able to buy it and everything. It’s really exciting. But it almost doesn’t seem real.
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Hey, you deserve to blow your own trumpet *toot toot*! I can’t wait to read it
Hands off my trumpet, lady!
And thank you xx
HaHA!
Woo! Fantastic. And if anyone judges you for squeeing at such a fabulous achievement, you probably don’t want them reading your blog anyway.
Can’t wait to read it. x
Aw, thanks Keris. And you’re right, of course. I’m not used to being all “yay!” and I’m never sure how people will react. I’ll have to keep practicing, I guess.
I would never ever judge you for writing that you’ve appeared in a book. Or that you squeed and teared up when you received it. I think it’s pretty bloody ace. ACE! Am so pleased for you.
Aw, thanks Helen! You are lovely. x
Congratulations!
Do you see a point where it will start to feel real or do you think it’ll just creep up on you?
Thanks Jenni! I don’t know to be honest. Sometimes I remember I was published in The Guardian a couple of years ago, and that doesn’t feel real either. Maybe I just have to make peace with the surreal
Awesome – super congrats xx
Thanks Anne! x
Well done Diane! (Can’t wait until I can start boasting, too, lol!) x
Thanks Kim! (And here’s to that day!)
CELEBRATE IT, baby! This is what life’s all about. Congratulations
Thanks Shauna! You’re right, too — there aren’t much better feelings, are there?