Word out in today’s SFChronicle that Sara Zarr — whom I met many many moons ago at a WTQ gathering of misc.writers, back when she lived in this fair city, before she moved to Utah — is a finalist for the National Book Award for The Story of a Girl in the Young People’s Literature division.
Yippee! Yahoo! for Sara!!!!!
Sara’s Web presence: The Stories of a Girl
Sara is published. Sara is a finalist for a National Book Award.
Sara no longer engages with folks on misc.writing.
Hmmm. Is there a connection?
(A slight one, perhaps. Her success is primarily due to … Sara is talented, and determined, and focussed and …)
Yay, hooray for Sara!