No Rest for the Wicked

Is that what they say?

Well I am wicked then I guess :-)

Work has been SUPER busy these past few weeks!

Here are the highlights:

I went to Washington DC for the ProLiteracy Worldwide Convention last week.

I attended some great workshops, listened to some amazing speakers and attended a fine banquet, and had the chance to meet Nora Roberts! Queen of romance novels. This woman is the most prolific writer of all time. She has written close to 250 novels. And I think something like 23 Nora Roberts novels are sold every minute in the world. She was a real classy lady, her speech was great and it was fun to meet her.

Tuesday night I had the honor of meeting some of our young supporters!

I had a meeting with Girl Scout Troop 006 who is working to earn their Bronze Award.

They are going to do a book drive for us. They were super cute.

That SAME night, around 20 people came from all over Chicago to sit in, hang out in our space, drink coffee and work on writing novels as part of NANOWRIMO, http://www.nanowrimo.org/.

13 of them were high school students from Corliss High, and with their teacher Kelli, have set out to attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in one month. They were really cool kids and it was very fun to here about what topics they were writing about.

And then yesterday we had another 15 people or so come for a volunteer lunch/meeting!

It was SO great to have people in the office all week...fired up and ready to help us.

Hard to imagine that a year ago we were in Stacy's basement.......