A small, yet fitting, celebration

Tonight (okay, technically, this morning) shortly after midnight, I finished the most recent round of revisions on WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU O.J., my first middle grade novel (Knopf, 2011) not to mention my most autobographical book so far.  It is the story of Zelda Fried, a ten year old girl who has moved to Vermont and wants a dog so badly she'll do anything... which is why she signs on for her eccentric grandfather's ridiculous plan to turn an old orange juice jug into a "practice dog."  

Upon hitting save, my elderly dog Lucy and I padded down to the kitchen to have a fitting celebration.  She had Vermont's finest - Ben & Jerry's vanilla ice cream - with pain medication in it and I had... orange juice.

Comments

[Ayun Halliday]

Huzzah! Congratulations! I'll give you the weekend off and then....we do it to it!

[Ayun Halliday]

also? tomorrow is free comic book day. I know where I was last year at this time.

[Erica Perl]

Wow, has a whole year flown by since we enjoyed those delicious buttcakes together? Wait, that came out all wrong.

[Jen Oko]

I am so excited for this book! Congrats!