Good Things Come to Those who Wait...

Last year, around October, I entered the UP ALL NIGHT Contest hosted by Laura Geringer books, a division of HarperCollins. Yes, I said HarperCollins. Up All Night is a book comprising of six short stories by six different authors with one common theme: a character whose thoughts or situation kept him/her up all night. Libba Bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, and The Sweet Far Thing wrote a short story for the book as well. To get a feel of what the stories were like, I borrowed the book from the library (although this was after I'd written my story, and I didn't edit much of it after reading the book). To enter the contest, my story also had to feature a character who stays up all night. So, with that idea in mind, I wrote "Boogey Till the Sunrise". Turns out, I've won first prize which gets me a copy of Up All Night signed by all the contributing authors and might get to have "Boogey Till the Sunrise" published! I'm starting to really like the Law of Attraction. If you haven't read it yet, get yourself a copy of The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Or, if you're not a reader, well two things: 1. You're looking at the wrong blog and 2. See the movie! I started reading The Secret 45 minutes ago, and it's already begun to improve my life, and definitely my mood! I know, I sound nothing like a teen, but my old Italian teacher called me la nonna ("the grandma") for a reason. Can I help it if I want to improve my life after living for just under two decades?