Heather Foeh

I’m having a blast at the RWA National Convention in Dallas this week. It’s my first time attending “Nationals” (as everyone calls it) and I’m hooked. Last night there was a huge book signing and all the money raised goes for literacy and will be donated to the Dallas area. I got to meet Julia Quinn, Rachel Gibson, Carly Phillips, Emma Holly and many, many more authors - it was fabulous. Today during a break I sat about 15 feet away from Nora Roberts, which was quite a thrill. But the best news is that I met “my” agent this morning.

If you read my earlier post you know that my full manuscript was requested by Michelle Grajkowski of 3 Seas Literary Agency. Well, the first session that I attended today was being given by Michelle and I had the pleasure of seeing her in action and I really liked her personality and work philosophy. After the session I went up and introduced myself to her and told her that she had requested my full manuscript as a result of the Four Seasons contest. She told me that she was looking forward to reading the whole story because “those pages were great” [the 25 pages I'd submitted for the contest]. Hooray! That set the tone for a wonderful day at the conference.

To add to the happiness of the convention, my best friend Michelle found out last night that she received first place in the Ignite the Flame contest and her pages are going to Chris Keeslar at Dorchester. She will find out on August 15th whether or not he is going to request the full manuscript (and I have complete faith that he will, of course). So, all in all, a great week for me and Michelle here in the Big D.