This Thursday feels like a Friday

That's how happy I am today. It feels like Friday even though it's Thursday, probably because I am so, so, so looking forward to the Operation Awesome chat tonight with special guest Elana Johnson (aka Query Ninja).

And you guys, she's nervous, so she'll need lots of you to show up with nice things to say about her gorgeous new book, POSSESSION.

In preparation for tonight's chat (9pm EST at the Operation Awesome blog), Marieke has posted a perfectly timed and very helpful interview with Elana Johnson ABOUT...

(you guessed it)

QUERIES!

I'll go now, so you can skip on over and read that awesome interview.

p.s. any non-fiction writers reading this will find my CP Michelle McLean's non-fiction query advice extremely helpful. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, and her new book Homework Helpers: Essays and Term Papers releases in January 2011.

Live Query Chat!

Ever play telephone? (phone pictured is from 1896--everything looked cooler in 1896) 

They're talking about it all over the web.

Operation Awesome is all about it!

Elana Johnson's spreading the word, too!

Amparo Ortiz is jumping up and down in excitement!

and Lindsay (a.k.a. Isabella) is making twice as many virtual cookies as usual, all in honor of...



THE QUERY NINJA CHAT


Elana Johnson, the Query Ninja herself, has agreed to be our honored guest. Click on ANY of the above links for dates and times and more squeeing than you can shake a stick at. (What does that expression mean? I'm imagining a crotchety old woman shaking a stick at a bunch of squeeing girls. Weird.)

Okay, other news: a WRITEONCON live chat with Sara Megibow!!!! (click Elana's link above for the deets)

p.s. I just cracked open HEX HALL last night, and am LOVING the voice! Rachel Hawkins, you are a creative genius!