de Jour

• Good News of the Day: Literary Agent Bill Jensen wants to see my book proposal.
• Lesson of the Day: How to write great magazine query letters.
• Tears of the Day: Ken Davis' story of his granddaughter going missing for 3.5 hours on a camping trip.
• Blessing of the Day: Sitting with a writer of plays and drama sketches at lunch and being able to connect her to people who have published mine....and seeing the gratitude on her face!
• Quote of the Day: "It's a good thing a major publisher didn't publish it, because we would have nitpicked it to death." -- a Zondervan editor referring to "The Shack"
• Surprise of the Day: Sitting next to a Church Resources publisher at lunch who suggested I send in "Waiting in the Wings" (my long-abandoned book for drama teams.)
• Soup of the Day: tomato
• Worry of the Day: will I make it to the airport on time and get on my flight tomorrow?
• Word of the Day: "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all." (from the old hymn.)