I just received the contract from blessed Algonquin for my novel BREATHE. This is momentous because it means that all those snakelike worries (Will they change their mind? Is this really happening? Will something go wrong?) are now burrowing back in the grass where they belong. I know I've written and published a lot, but each time is brand new. Each time has its own perils and anxieties, and I have never reached a point where I take it all for granted. (Actually, I hope I never do.)
I admit it. This makes it really real for me. I am staring at the contract with pure and unabashed joy.
welcome to my obsessive world
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- Stay tuned, WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, my 12th novel is coming August 4, 2020 from Algonquin. My 11th novel CRUEL BEAUTIFUL WORLD is an Indie Next Pick. IS THIS TOMORROW was an May Indie Pick. I'm also the New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU, a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick, a Costco "Pennie's Pick." a NAIBA bestseller and on the Best Books of 2011 List from San Francisco Chronicle, Providence Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Bookmarks Magazine. I'm the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Grant in Fiction. I was a 2013 finalist in the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and a finalist in the Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellowship, four of my novels were optioned for screen, and I talked my way into writing the script for two of them. My essay, HIgh Infidelity, has been optioned for film. I'm a book critic for The San Francisco Chronicle and People Magazine. I teach novel writing for UCLA Extension Writers' Program, and Stanford online, do private fiction editing, and I am a professional namer! I live with my husband, writer/editor Jeff Tamarkin and we beam with pride about our son, an actor/filmmaker in college. Visit me at http://www.carolineleavitt.com.
7 comments:
C:
Congrats again. I share your unabashedness!
J
Oh that's WONDERFUL!
I totally share your anxiety and hope to share this particular joy sometime again in the future. In the meantime, let's turn up the hifi and dance! And eat chocolate! And tonight, I bet you'll be able to sleep.
CONGRATULATIONS!
FABULOUS!!! I understand the relief of "knowing it's real!" My fear was always that I would show up on set and they would be like..."What? Oh no, not her, she's not the one I meant...the other Gina, that's who I wanted." And yes this has happened.But not to me. And not to YOU!!! Yipppeeee!! Celebrate...with sleep.
G:)
Congrats Caroline!!!
Its so nice to read that repeatedly successful authors have the same feeling in their head that us new authors do-Will they change their mind? of course they will change their mind. They weren't thinking rationally when they chose the essay/ article. They want to reneg.
Bravo, keep staring at the contract and smile. You did it and they like you- as Sally Fields said-" You like me , you really like me" when she won her Oscar.
Thank you all. I am so amazed, and though I am sure the anxiety will start up again, I am really just pushing it away for at least a few weeks!
congratulations, Caroline!
Caroline - I just wanted to add my congratulations. I'll take the opportunity to say again how much help you were to me in your UCLA novel classes.
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