I'm A What?!
It's one of those days for me, my minions, where I just want to lounge around in jammies, graze my way through the kitchen instead of actually indulging in full meals, read a good book, and play around online without really getting anything work-related accomplished. Jammies--check. Grazing, good book--check, check. Useless fun online--well...not so much.
You see, something dawned on me this morning as I stared dreamily at the calendar in my kitchen. There's a big, red circle around January 3rd (the day Eighth Grade Bites goes on submission) and it serves as a beacon of hope. Realistically, I realize that I may never be published. And, even if I am, that it may be a fluke...and a fluke that pays very little. I'm okay with that. But I still like daydreaming about that red circle.
Anyway, something occurred to me during my red circle daydreaming session.
For all intensive purposes, I'm a children's author.
Now, now...don't be scared. The idea of me writing for kids threw me for a loop too. The funny thing is that it never really occured to me. I never really considered an audience when I was writing EGB--I mostly wrote it to amuse myself and (as Lynn Sinclair, a brilliant author in her own right, phrased it) to say the things that I wasn't brave enough to say when I was a teen. Then, this morning, it really hit me that my readers will likely be teenagers, and all at once I was sucked back into the eighth grade, wondering if they would like me and, if they didn't, how I would react. It was scary.
But then I looked at my drivers license (which is pretty mutilated after two trips through a very hot dryer) and remembered that I'm old enough to vote (even though I only started during this last presidential election), own real estate (even though I don't) and go to war (even though I wouldn't). And all was right with the world.
Anyway, the whole point of this blog entry is that after I freaked out and realized that I, blood-writing, black-wearing, circle-dancing, vampire-loving Heather Brewer, am a children's author, I found a listing on Publisher's Weekly of some sneak peaks for children's books in Spring of 2006. Some very interesting books coming out, so it was a cool list to find.
Here's hoping Vlad makes the list for 2007.
You see, something dawned on me this morning as I stared dreamily at the calendar in my kitchen. There's a big, red circle around January 3rd (the day Eighth Grade Bites goes on submission) and it serves as a beacon of hope. Realistically, I realize that I may never be published. And, even if I am, that it may be a fluke...and a fluke that pays very little. I'm okay with that. But I still like daydreaming about that red circle.
Anyway, something occurred to me during my red circle daydreaming session.
For all intensive purposes, I'm a children's author.
Now, now...don't be scared. The idea of me writing for kids threw me for a loop too. The funny thing is that it never really occured to me. I never really considered an audience when I was writing EGB--I mostly wrote it to amuse myself and (as Lynn Sinclair, a brilliant author in her own right, phrased it) to say the things that I wasn't brave enough to say when I was a teen. Then, this morning, it really hit me that my readers will likely be teenagers, and all at once I was sucked back into the eighth grade, wondering if they would like me and, if they didn't, how I would react. It was scary.
But then I looked at my drivers license (which is pretty mutilated after two trips through a very hot dryer) and remembered that I'm old enough to vote (even though I only started during this last presidential election), own real estate (even though I don't) and go to war (even though I wouldn't). And all was right with the world.
Anyway, the whole point of this blog entry is that after I freaked out and realized that I, blood-writing, black-wearing, circle-dancing, vampire-loving Heather Brewer, am a children's author, I found a listing on Publisher's Weekly of some sneak peaks for children's books in Spring of 2006. Some very interesting books coming out, so it was a cool list to find.
Here's hoping Vlad makes the list for 2007.
posted by Heather Brewer at 11:59 AM
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