The Waiting and the Cookies

Waiting to hear news – any news at all – after submitting a manuscript is a special form of torture. Here’s what I’ve done so far today to distract myself from refreshing my email every 2 seconds:

• Took my puppy for a looooooong walk

• Ate a cookie

• Started reading Cynthia Lord’s fabulous middle grade novel, A HANDFUL OF STARS

• Ate a cookie

• Started writing a new manuscript

• Ate a cookie

• Worked on the WPA SCBWI Fall Conference

• Ate a cookie

• Wrote a gushy ‘I love you and your work’ Facebook message to Mike Curato

• Ate a cookie

• Talked to my enormously talented and supportive critique partner, Jessica Young

• Tried to eat a cookie, but I couldn’t.

There are no more cookies in this house. And still. . .no news. Gah!