Recently, I read Martha Southgate's novel, Third Girl from the Left. Then I checked out her webpage. From there I linked to Tayari Jones (author of Leaving Atlanta, among other books) and read this post about the tragedy in Dunbar Village near West Palm Beach and Tayari's call for an e-bay auction of writerly talents as a fundraiser.
To wrap this all up, I am now the winner of a story critique by Martha Southgate. The auction is over, but here's a direct link for donations.
There's been a slump in my writing life as I've negotiated between a procrastinating tax preparer and my mother's anxiety. I'm using this critique as the the carrot to the get-a-draft-done-of-the-new-chapter stick.
The rule was that I had to spend at least an hour at my yellow pages this morning. I did, and now I get to package up my story for Martha. Yikes. Now I'm anxious. Mother's daughters, aren't we all.
Sandra, thanks for taking part in the auction. Like I said before, you are going to loove working with Martha!
Posted by: tayari | April 18, 2008 at 10:56 AM