Saturday, March 19, 2005

Rooty-toot-toot! Rooty-toot-toot! We're the kids from the Sinstitute!

I forgot to say that I saw both Cathie and Bloomers on Wednesday, which was entirely nice and helpful and enthusiasm-sustaining. I had a copy of a draft of my proposal for Susan, and as I walked through the Ch. Lit office (or Ch. Lit/English/Philosophy/whatever they wanna call it this week suite) I suddenly got a rush of excitement about this whole thing. Very timely.

And so I was practically bursting when I spoke to Cathie for a bit, and bobbing in my seat while Susan and I talked. Turns out they know the girl who was writer-in-res last year! She's a children's lit alumna, god bless her, and may be able to respond to some of my questions if she's available. Sweet, right?

I talked to Susan about the Sinstitute/Imposium, as well. There's quite a list of authors - Marilyn Nelson, Donna Jo Napoli, Cornelia Funke, Jack Gantos - newcomers and returning favorites! No Chris Lynch, however. Le sigh. Anyway, sounds very exciting, and there's just this tiny chance that I can save the $350 necessary to secure a seat.

So who all's comin'?

2 comments:

Sarah said...

Aren't alums up for SOME type of discount? Come on!

JoBiv said...

That IS the discount - it's $100 off the regular price and they didn't raise the alumn price from last year. Still steep.