(Cue Twilight Zone music)
Last week, 4 people informed me that they had stopped receiving my blog post notifications. While I was agonizing over what on earth to do to fix this knotty problem, I suddenly got a blog post notification from Janet Sumner Johnson, soon followed by one from Wavy Lines, soon followed by ones from Growing, Writing, Creating Our Own, Sunlit Pages, Fiction University, and a host of others. Almost all of them are Blogger blogs and/or delivered by Feedburner. None of them had missed a post... and yet I hadn't received notifications from them for a couple weeks. Coincidence?
(More Twilight Zone music!)
I don't THINK so! I mean, what are the odds? (A question which I am WAY to bad at math to have any hope of figuring out, but knock yourselves out if you want to actually answer :)) And...
AND!!!
... my blog is a Blogger blog delivered by Feedburner! Coincidence?
Again, I think not!
So I'm hoping against all reason and former evidence to the contrary that this was some kind of Blogger or Feedburner issue which has resolved itself.
(Hahaha! I know! That would be so simple it will probably never happen! But here's hoping everyone who is supposed to get my blog post notification today WILL! My glass is half-full :))
(And we will not discuss the fact that I am so busy and my inbox is so full that I didn't even realize I'd MISSED their notifications until they reappeared... sharpest tool in the shed, here :)... so I deeply apologize for missing those posts and failing to visit!)
I don't know about you, but after all that spine-tingling weirdness and the depressing realization of my lack of cognizance, I need Something Chocolate! Let me rummage in my pantry and see what we have today...
...chocolate is brain food, you know. Very restorative...
Ooh! How about these morsels of delectableness thoughtfully sent to me by the lovely Rene!
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| Brownie Peanut Butter Cupcakes! |
YUM! I hope you can see that there is an oreo spread with peanut butter, topped by another oreo and more peanut butter, all enveloped in lovely brownie! I think even I might be able to make these, and boy do they look good! Please. Help yourselves! We'll forget all about the Blogger/Feedburner conspiracy! :)
Now. To the business at hand. (I mean, the OTHER business at hand, besides stuffing ourselves with chocolate at whatever ungodly hour of the morning it currently is :))
Today's pitch comes to us from Steve, who says says, "I spent 20 years as a teacher of small children in London. Reading aloud was my favourite part of teaching. This means that I absolutely know what a PB, Lower MG should sound like. The challenge is to make my own writing sound right!" We have met Steve before with his pitches for Rashad Saves The World (WYRI #111) which won the November 2013 Pitch Pick, and Silly Tilly (WYRI #123)
Here is his pitch:
Working Title: Princess Petulia's Problem
Age/Genre: Picture Book (ages 5-8)
The Pitch: Princess Petulia had the longest hair you ever saw. It was long, it was luscious, it was glossy and glamorous and Princess Petulia … hated it. Children stood on it, birds made nests in it, but the King had rules for princesses and the number one rule was NO HAIRCUTS. Kings are kings and can't be disobeyed, but when she accidentally bumped in to the old gardener with the pruning shears and the shaky hands, Princess Petulia started to see the perfect solution to her problem.
If your answer is YES, please feel free to tell us what you particularly liked and why the pitch piqued your interest. If your answer is MAYBE or NO, please feel free to tell us what you think could be better in the spirit of helping Steve improve his pitch. Helpful examples of possible alternate wordings are welcome. (However, I must ask that comments be constructive and respectful. I reserve the right not to publish comments that are mean because that is not what this is about.)
Steve is looking forward to your thoughts on his pitch! I am looking forward to seeing if anyone gets this post notification. (I will be very forgiving and not sentence Blogger/Feedburner to an entire week without their crayons if the problem has been fixed/spontaneously fixed itself!)
Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone! :)
