Look
at that – first post of the new year!
Happy 2015, everybody! I hope
everyone had a wonderful and safe holiday season. My sister and I spent New Year’s Eve watching
Live at Lincoln Center and Michael Feinstein New Year's Eve at the Rainbow Room
on PBS. I took the very first song
Michael sang as the title of this blog for numerous reasons.
Bye,Bye, Birdie was the first professional production I ever saw and it helped mold
me into the crazy Broadway fan I am today.
I was twelve and my grandmother took me to see the show at the ForrestTheatre in Philadelphia. The show
starred Tommy Tune, Susan Egan, and a number of other great names. In fact, twenty-something years later Tommy
Tune sat across the aisle from me at a show and it was one of the few times I’ve
truly been tongue-tied in front of celebrity.
Also,
it was a great song to start off the new year.
We have lots of livin’ to do with so many new beginnings and
possibilities. I have such great hope
for 2015 and I’m so excited to see what’s going to come next. I will get an agent this year – I will! And I will keep saying that until I do. No doubts, no questions.
The
details about a new query contest were announced today. Michelle Hauck and Amy Trueblood are hosting
Sun vs Snow and I’m already gearing up to enter in a few weeks. I’m very hopeful about getting chosen this
time around but I know I’ll still get something out of it if I don’t. I have gotten positive things out of every
contest I’ve taken part in – followers, friends, and feedback. I even have a whole new opening to my
manuscript thanks to slush reader feedback from Nightmare on Query Street. I was close last night so maybe this time
there will actually be a cigar.
I
was reading an article about the Hollywood sign and the residents of BeachwoodCanyon today. This upscale Los Angeles
neighborhood is where Suzy, my main character, makes her home and I have been
wondering where she would fall in the debate as a resident. She has a great love for the sign and often
blows it kisses from her bedroom window for luck and would hate for people not
to have access to it. But, she wouldn’t
care for the drunken tourists messing up her beloved aunt’s home. It’s a tense situation and sadly there will
always been rude and stupid tourists. They’re not all bad but enough are that
things get ruined for everyone. Even
though I have visited Hollywood on several occasions I have never made a trek
to the sign. It’s a bucket list item for
me.
Enough
of that for now – there’s such much work and livin’ to do. Let’s get to it!
Great post, Kristin!
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the new year, may you accomplish all your writing goals! Suzy sounds like a fun character -- I'll bet she's going to win some agent's heart sooner rather than later ;)
Happy 2015! I hope it's a wonderful year and that it brings you everything you want -- including your perfect agent!
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