Writing Contests | Cathy C. Hall Writes

I can’t be lolly-gagging away here at the Hall of Fame. I’m off to Springmingle (the Southern Breeze chapter of SCBWI regional conference in Atlanta)! I’m sure I’ll find all kinds of fabulous writing stuff. And I’ll take notes, too. Then I’ll come back here and share with you!

Okay. I cannot tell a lie. I will intend to take notes. But most likely I will listen real carefully. Um, actually, I might not listen that carefully. I start watching people and then my mind wanders. Before you know it, the session’s over and what have I got to show for it?

That’s probably why they give out a few pages of notes at these conferences. I’ll bet there are tons of writers who have lolly-gagging brains.

(Wait! Check out this contest going on over at The Happy Accident! You could win a free social media consultation-Greg Pincus usually provides these at conferences- if your name is chosen. BUT, even if you’re not interested in the social scene, you’ll pick up a ton of great blog reading in the comments! Don’t lolly-gag. Contest ends the 28th!)

I slogged out to my mailbox today, through snowflakes a-flyin’, to find my new business cards! (And because I’m a ham, my new sticky notes to go along with!)

Just between you and me, I seem to have the same thing going on with business cards that I have with bathing suits. (Hmmmm…they both begin with B’s. Coincidence? I think not.) Namely, I’m on a mission to find perfection. And yet, since both business cards and bathing suits involve Cathy C. Hall, in either the flesh or a likeness thereof, perfection is a tad difficult to come by. Hence, the whole thing taking on that “Mission: Impossible” status.

Oh, well. I kinda like these cards better than the last. And the sticky notes are swell (probably because they’re fuzzy-ish). So I’m feeling pretty lucky today. Lucky enough to enter The Dear Lucky Agent Contest going on over at Chuck Sambuchino’s Guide to Literary Agents Editor’s Blog.

Wow. That’s a mouthful. But the contest is pretty simple. Send 150 to 200 words of your middle grade or young adult unpublished manuscript to wherever Chuck said. And don’t forget to follow a few of the other rules listed if you want your entry to be valid. Go right here and read it again, just to be on the safe side. Then zip that entry out before February 21st.

I wish I could put one of my new sticky notes on that entry:

“Dear Lucky Agent,
If you think this sticky note rocks, wait til you read my WHOLE manuscript!
Yours in anything but a bathing suit,
Cathy C. Hall”