Friday, April 3, 2009

National Poetry Month, and other things

In case you were unaware: April is National Poetry Month! Gregory K. over at GottaBook is celebrating children's poetry with the first annual 30 poets/30 days event. Take a look today to see poems by my awesome writer friend Charles Ghigna (a.k.a. Father Goose)!

Also being celebrated today: author Kate Messner has declared it to be Say Something Nice Day. I think this is a lovely idea, and will happily participate. Here are just a few people I'm appreciating right now:
  • The administrators and parent volunteers at the Manhattan New School who kicked off a series of author visits yesterday so that every class in the school will get a chance to meet an author, ask questions, get signed books, etc. I had a great time visiting the first graders, who were excellent story-listeners and asked really good questions during our talk!
  • My agent and editor, who are both awesome beyond measure in every possible way and who do a wonderful good-cop/bad-cop routine and apply just the right amount of pressure regarding certain manuscripts and proposals THAT THEY WILL HAVE VERY VERY SOON I PROMISE!!!! (Thank you for not going ahead with the bad-cop/bad-cop approach...yet.)
  • The nice woman who works at my local laundromat who always has a smile for the customers and who makes the often-annoying task of doing laundry very much more pleasant. Little things like being friendly really make a big difference. I wish more people would remember that.
  • My friend Steph, whose birthday it is today, and who has been a wonderful and supportive and all-around fabulous friend since we first met freshman year of high school. Happy birthday, Steph!
  • A certain other person, whom I appreciate more than he probably knows, for lots and lots of reasons.

OK - Back to work with me.

5 comments:

  1. Hey! Thanks for joining in Say Something Nice Day! (You never know when you just up and declare a day like this if anyone will play along, so I appreciate YOU!)

    Also...I can't wait for The Dragon of Trelian!!

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  2. Thanks for the link...and I hope you have a blast at your launch party!

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  3. Hey you - just posted a comment to you on my blog - your book a big star at TLA! :)

    I'd love to post the interview next week if you have time...

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  4. Hey Mikki,
    Really cool to see you have your own blog. I'm lookin' forward to the Dragon of Trelian Party. Hope all is well, God bless.

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  5. Moody! It is SO cool that you are coming to the party. Can't wait to see you! :)

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