Secret Agent-time!

So Mum and I have been editing my prologue again before sending it off to the agent (and after I added 4 pages' worth of new material the other day) and we finished editing it yesterday! But before we sent it, she wanted to read over my query letter again, so that took a good while, because she insisted on reading everything, like, 3 times. But finally, at 10 last night, we sent my query to Mary Kole of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency! Yay! I'm so excited!! I was also glad we got to send it yesterday because a) it was Saint Patrick's Day, so it'll be easy to remember what day we sent it. b) it was Saint Patrick's Day, and I'm Scotch-Irish, so kind of a fun heritage day for me :). c) it was the 17th (my favourite number) of the year 11 (my second favourite number). Just a little bit of fun trivia for you there. :)
Wow...it doesn't seem like this is all really happening. I mean, I started writing this book 4 years ago when I was twelve and yeah, I dreamed of getting it published, but now that it's really happening....*takes a deep breath*.

I Yam the Sammie Copycat :)

Songs that are frequently stuck in SKANDIE'S head :)

If I Die Young - The Band Perry
this one's just catchy and slightly morbid, but I like it alot.


Is Anybody Listening? - Adam Lambert
this is a song from when Adam Lambert performed on Broadway in 'The Ten Commandments'. Great song!!

Hey, Soul Sister - Train
Mum sings this ALL.THE.TIME. so I kinda have no choice. it just gets stuck.


Jesus Saves - Jeremy Camp
I just bought this one, so I've been listening to it alot.

A Year Without Rain - Selena Gomez
Yeah, I know: it's Selena Gomez! Ew! But I really like this song. It's very catchy!

Please Don't Leave Me - P!nk
Ah!!! I love this song! It's so catchyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!! :D

Come Home - Luminate
This one's awesommmme!

I don't really have a whole lot of vocal songs, so a lot of the ones that are frequently stuck in my head actually don't have words...but these are the ones that DO have words. :)

Hey! Hey! Hey! Over here!!!!!!

There art some new literature pieces up on Toggles tales for anyone who is interested! Here is the link

Now fly my little munchkin peoples! FLY!!!!

Hecticnesss...

Home sick today...achy back, neck, ribs, and...hand? Yes, my hand aches as well :) So! Let me tell you about my extremely stressful weekend, during which I almost lost my entire 3rd book. And to give you some insight as to how devastating this would have been for me, imagine this: I've been working on it since July 19, 2010; it's my favourite book thus far; I have just written a long part I really, REALLY love; and writing IS MY LIFE. So if I'd had to start completely over.....I think I would have just given up writing for a while. That's how depressed I would have been. But God is faithful and my dear little book is still alive! Whew...
So how did I almost lose my book, you ask?
Well, let me tell you:
I was at my grandma's house on Sunday, writing away happily on my 3rd book and saving as I go and all that, when suddenly a message pops up on the screen, saying 'there's not enough room on file E:/ to save this document' or something like that! Now usually when this happens, one simply hits save a few more times and it will save. But that wasn't working this time. So I closed it.
My first mistake.
I tried to reopen my book this time and it wouldn't open. At all. It said 'Word cannot open this file because a/ there's not enough space; b/ this program doesn't support the file; or c/ this file is corrupt'.
Now which do you suppose turned out to be the case?
You guessed it: C.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *panic*
So I asked my dad if he knew how to fix it, because I'd had this happen to 1 of my other documents about a year ago and I just had to delete it because nothing I would do could open it. I also wasn't sure if I had a backup anywhere. Anywhere at all.
My second mistake.
Now you can further grasp how exactly panicked I was over here, huh?
And as expected, Dad could do nothing. So we called my brother and tried a few more various things. No luck. Dad ended the project just by saying gravely and solemnly, "I'm sorry; there's nothing I can do."
Kinda sounds like one of those hospital shows, right? o.O
Sooooo.....we left to go home after that and, as you can imagine, I was totally freaking out, trying, trying, trying to remember if I had a backup at our home computer. But I couldn't remember, which only added to my tension. I couldn't focus; I could hardly breathe! 260 pages written over the course of 7 months...possibly gone forever! (Yeesh, I'm getting anxious just writing about it!)
The hour-long ride home was so much fun. NOT. I tried to fall asleep to make the time go faster, but couldn't. So I prayed and prayed and prayed for some part of the book to still be there.
As soon as we got home...Dad made me unload everything before checking. AhHHH!! Did he not understand my life was in crisis here??? (Love you, Dad! :) )
So finally, after allllll day of worry and anxiety, I got to check. And, to my astonishment ('cause I didn't remember saving that much of the book) all but the 5 pages I'd written at my grandma's house were on our computer! Yay! I could breathe again. Thank you, Jesus!
“And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.” – Phil 4:19
So it's nice to just relaxe today and know God's got it all under control :)