Published Book Prizes, Grant Writing Tips, and more helpful links

Happy birthday to my little brother, born in the dragon year of 1976, so it’s doubly lucky for him! (I’m pretty sure that solar storm yesterday was just the dragon acting up!)

If you’ve been reading my blog you know I’ve been wrestling with grant applications; here’s Susan Rich’s terrifically helpful tips for applying to grants:
http://thealchemistskitchen.blogspot.com/2012/01/grant-proposals-some-random-thoughts.html?showComment=1327471180104#c5106411319332706938
I’m finally done; now all I have to do is bite my nails while waiting for results!

And, in case you, like me, just had a book come out last year, Jessica Goodfellow supplies a great list of post-publication prizes here (some of which I had never heard of:)
http://jessicagoodfellow.blogspot.com/2011/04/post-publication-book-contests.html

I’m not going to go to this year’s AWP, so I’m relying on you guys to report back with all the news, gossip, how awesome Margaret Atwood’s keynote might be, etc. Sorry to miss you! Can’t wait til AWP is in my backyard…

Having a harder time locating a house here that I was hoping; I guess one-story homes on the East side of Seattle are sort of rare, and it seems no one wants to sell their houses now that prices are so low, so there’s very little inventory of any sort. Because we’re going FHA, we have to avoid most condos, so that eliminates those possibilities. Tough stuff!

I found out from my publisher that I’ve sold about eleven times as many paper copies of She Returns to the Floating World as e-book copies. So I’m providing a link here and reminding you this great-looking (if I do say so myself – but seriously, Kitsune Books did a great job of formatting the poems) e-book is only $3.50, people! If you haven’t picked up a copy of my book yet, or you were wavering, this is your chance – go go go!