Some of you might be thinking to yourself, “I know that already, I saw it on Twitter!” That’s true, we did announce it on Twitter, in the middle of December, when everyone was busy with holiday travel, parties, and family visiting. Unfortunately, according to all the writer and illustrator friends I saw at the SCBWI NY Conference, they didn’t see that announcement. So I thought maybe I should say something about it on my blog.
You might be wondering why I didn’t announce it on my blog earlier. Here’s the deal. I didn’t want to say anything until I signed the contract,* which I did today! Maybe that’s old fashioned of me (or me being paranoid that it didn’t really happen). I just wanted to make sure before I announced it to the whole world (outside of Twitter, of course).
Now that I’m sure, I can officially announce that I have an agent! WooHoo! Yippee! You should have seen me dancing around the apartment when he offered!
If you were at the conference, you might have seen the announcement on my postcards. (The contract was at my house, so I knew it was real enough to put into print.) If you weren’t at the conference,** and want to see the postcards, here’s the written proof of my new agent!***
This is the front of the postcard. It’s an image I’ve been working on for a long time (I also have watercolor and acrylic paintings started for this image, but liked this version the best and decided to finish it for the conference postcard).
This is the back of the postcard. The cat came from a sketch I did on a dry erase board! The dog came from a regular sketch (using pen and paper).
So now that you know I have an agent, I can go back to posting on my blog again and not keeping secrets.****
2012 is off to a great start!!! Hope the year is off to a great start for you too!!!
*Why didn’t I sign the contract
earlier? The day after I accepted Barry’s offer, I left town for three
weeks. When I came back, Barry went out of town. Then he came back and I
found out that I hadn’t given him my address so he could send me the
contract! After he sent it to me last week, I couldn’t send it back
because I was at the conference. So I sent it out today.
**I’ll be posting notes from the conference later this week.
***This post is a bit silly, but I am
seriously happy about signing with Barry and excited to start working
with him! I have a feeling that with Barry in my corner, 2012 is going
to be a really good year. 
****I was crossing my fingers when I
typed that, which makes it really hard to type, but also means that I
can still keep secrets if I have to. Because sometimes you just can’t
announce things (like agents) until you have a contract, you know?
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