Happy SEA Launch, Heidi Kling!

How do you top off a wonderful weekend that started with a Giant's win over the A's, a Saturday am  5K race in SF (I was the team photographer/ cheerleader, thank you very much),  our college kid's b'day lunch celebration (Happy 20th G !), and a 1-1 World Cup US vs. England tie? ( USA! USA!)

Our next stop was the launch of amazing debut YA author Heid R. Kling 's SEA (Putnam/ Penguin Young Readers 2010) at Books, Inc. in Palo Alto, where we ran into a mutual pal Christa, who flew down from Portland for the occasion! SEA hit the shelves on June 10th and look who else turned out for the launch party--

More children's authors and SEA fans, like Linda Joy Singleton (one of my crit group pals) and Cynthia Omololu , plus Heidi's entire writing group--including Debbie Duncan and  Cynthia Chin-Lee .

Also in the house--of course, was hostess-with-the-mostess Jennifer Laughran aka @literaticat and Not Your Mother's Book Club @NYMBC. I only wish I'd gotten a pic of their cool cup cakes--tiny orange Converse and sea creatures--and the Indonesian food!

When my YA launches (thinking postively here--I am fully aware I need a contract first, OK?), I now know how to Par-tay. 

Congrats Heidi! The adventure begins!

Just one YES--please!

Lucky you! From time to time, I'll be posting silly poems on this blog--mainly because they pop into my head and I have to get them out so I can sleep, or work on my WIP (mg revisions at present), or carry on seemingly adult conversations at graduations and such.

This poem is dedicated to all of you who are waiting for just one YES--from editors, agents, authors, illustrators, book sellers, Maureen Johnson (follow me on Twitter! @erindealey  Yes?) --and hey, what-the-heck--loved ones, producers, directors, #Glee,  Presidents, the New York Times, BP, Oprah...
Think Big!
Think YES!

My manuscript's out there
On an editor's desk
Somewhere deep in a pile of slush.       
(think Bastille--oui!)


My manuscript's out there.
I won't be a pest.
Take your time. I've got years. What's the rush?
(no big Deal-ey)


My manuscript's out there.
It just takes one YES,
and "No news is good news," they say.
(Is is really?)


But my manuscript's been there
so long, I confess:
I would kill (oops too strong?)
I would beg (no that's wrong)
Dang it, call me with good news TODAY!
(Erin Dealey)