Tuesday, May 10, 2011

uses for boys

In 2008 I started writing a young adult novel called USES FOR BOYS and at the same time I started blogging. Often about my favorite writers, Grace Paley or Deborah Eisenberg. It helped keep me in the chair. But I had no idea when I started that I would meet such amazing people. Early on I met No Good for Me, Forty-Sixth at Grace, Woolgathering & Miscellany, Maud Newton, 2 or 3 Things I Know, A Cup of Jo, Sleep Deprivation and Stories of My Bullshit Youth, Porter Hovey, and Hollister Hovey, Shiny Squirrel, Hila, STNF, and of course, my beloved Ugly Earring. And then more recently, Nearness of Distance, Now Voyager, Victoria Thorne, mackin ink, M Dash, Look Mom, 16 House, Une Envie de Sel, Marvelous Kiddo, Le Temps Perdu, and Even Cleveland.

Today I sold my novel to St. Martin's Press and I keep thinking: I'm so crazy happy to have spent the last three years with you.
Photo by Larry Bercow
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16 comments:

  1. Joanna GoddardMay 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    HUGE congratulations!!! bravo!

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  2. Joanna GoddardMay 10, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    ps. so glad to have met you, too :)

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  3. nikoleMay 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM

    WOW!! Big Congrats! So so glad we met too!

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  4. MackenzieMay 10, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    wowowow. congrats! ! ! ! !

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  5. UnknownMay 10, 2011 at 5:59 PM

    great to meet you too BUT CONGRATS TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. MichelleMay 11, 2011 at 6:41 PM

    What a sweet and wonderful way to announce fantastic news! Congratulations!!! Your blog's always a source of inspiration to me and I can't wait to see what the next three years bring.

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  7. erica lorraine scheidtMay 12, 2011 at 11:14 AM

    Thanks you guys! I'm over the moon.

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  8. wool and miscMay 13, 2011 at 10:57 AM

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!! So many hugs and congratulations and high fives!

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  9. erica lorraine scheidtMay 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM

    you guys rock. i'm over the moon.

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  10. MANDYMay 13, 2011 at 7:20 PM

    What fantastic news, well done you !!!!

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  11. UnknownMay 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM

    love the title. can't wait to read it!

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  12. wendyMay 17, 2011 at 4:07 PM

    so deserved. so cool.

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  13. evenclevelandMay 19, 2011 at 11:34 AM

    I'm late to this party, but CONGRATULATIONS.

    That's amazing news. Can't wait to read it!

    (and so happy to have met you, too)

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  14. katMay 21, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    CONGRATULATIONS!!!! how utterly wonderful, i can't wait to read it!

    xo k.

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  15. Michelle PanikAugust 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM

    I'm late to the party, but CONGRATULATIONS! This is such fantastic news.

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  16. erica lorraine scheidtAugust 10, 2011 at 12:24 PM

    Michelle, thanks so much! And I just went to your new site, it looks great. Hope to see you soon, Erica

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