Finally...GOOD news!

Today's message is don't EVER give up.

I'm still a little dumb-struck over here, but (Yipppeee!!!) my novel just placed in the William Faulkner-Wisdom "Novels-In-Progress" Competition.

Quick question: Am wondering should I contact the agents reading to let them know it placed? I know for certain I would if I'd won, but I'm not so sure if being a semi-finalist warrants an e-mail...

What do you think, friends?

Great advice...Thank you so much!!!

Hello Stormie and all the rest of you AWr's who were so wonderful and kind as to offer up your advice to me. I came to this site, a total newbie, a little over a year ago. What I've gotten here is a lot of support, some really good laughs, and one hell-uv-a education!

I want all of AW to know I took this sound advice... And what did it get me?!
WELL, if you really want to know... It got me two more full requests AND (here's the kicker) it also landed me a couple offers of representation.

I also have an author friend who I ran it past to be REALLY sure, and her exact words were, "YES!! Tell everyone!" LOL.

So that's basically what I did...

Now, I'm going to take the weekend to think about everything that's transpired over these last two days and then I'm making a decision Monday.

My hope is that the people who read this post, and especially those who are still seeking representation, will be inspired like I have been by so many of you. Seriously, we all know that it's really hard work, but if you love to write and work long and hard enough at it (and learn from your peers) well, your chances of succeeding get pretty darn good : )