Well, that's how I picture it anyway. One of my PiBoIdMo ideas practically wrote itself into a picture book this month, and I made an illustrated dummy--and it fit! It's called Tough Toast. My critique group loved it, but it got a 7 from Rate Your Story. Bleah!
But I'm still really liking this story, so when I read about a pitch event on Twitter, I decided to enter with my tweet "A bagel and a square piece of bread discuss their differences in 132 words in Tough Toast." And within an hour, I got a notification that it had been "favorited" (here's where I picture the fairy wand) by a lovely agent. I sent her the manuscript and told her I had also made a dummy. She wrote back and said to please send that, too And then I had to go to work before I could get it together--ah, this pesky making-a-living thing--but I drew a smaller version and scanned and sent it when I got home.
I haven't heard from her since, but I know she's at BEA this week and very busy, so I'll just hope to hear from her soon. Even if nothing comes of it, it feels very good to have had my tweet chosen, favorited, and touched by a fairy wand.
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