Pitch Wars #BoostMyBio

Well, here we go. 

Two golden retrievers are trying to climb on top of me, and the stupid robot vacuum is beeping because it's stuck under the fridge door. There are piles of clean and dirty laundry. There are dishes in the sink. I have work emails to write but instead...

Time to Boost my Bio.

Call me what you like but you can't say I'm not a try-hard. This is my first blog post. I probably need a blog anyway. Even Kanye had a first post.

That's me with my sister Jenny. A few years ago. I'm the tall, good-looking one. 

Slightly more recent - this is our family. 

By day I am a vice-principal in an elementary school, which means I mostly put band-aids on really small children and give bigger children heck for throwing snowballs. 

I self-published a book this year called Lattes and Love. It was my first novel and I was just thrilled to have finished it. I didn't know that I would be compelled to write another one immediately. So much for crossing it off the bucket list. This summer I have written and polished a new manuscript, Cautiously Optimistic Emily. I was all set to let the manuscript sit and age while I had a break and then went back to school.

Except that five minutes after I decided that I learned about PitchWars. So here we are.

This is the exact view that I had when I wrote most of the first draft of this book. I didn't take it. Some random person posted it to google reviews. I spent so many mornings there drinking free refills of my bold dark roast with room that the barista said to me one day, "You must not like your kids very much." Charming. Thanks. 

A few more or less interesting facts (can you tell I have no idea what I am doing?)

• I don't like superfluous exclamation points It's like devaluing currency, using them all the time.
• I love cupcakes a lot. But not cupcakes from the grocery store.
• I'm addicted to Coronation Street. Especially Jim MacDonald.
• I have kept six hydrangea bushes alive all summer, although they do need to be weeded.
• My house smells like dog.
• My daughter can give you the next line of any line you throw her from The Office with alarming accuracy.

If I am chosen as a mentee, you will find that I am very bossable. This is why I get along so well with my sister, above. She is bossy and I am the bossee. I'm very stubborn and I have learned to use this power for good by doing things like figuring out how to write a blog when I should be folding laundry. My husband is the most wonderful man in the world and he and my children are one hundred per cent behind me. 

I'm just superexcited. I'm superexcited most of the time in general but I'm extra superexcited about this.

And I'm very Disney-obsessed. Princesses, Princes, Walt working his butt off selling papers to get enough money to draw pictures. It's all there.

Soooo...