On Catching a Moonbeam

October 31, 2008 by maureen.ulrich.

Everyday I think to myself . . . is this the day I wake up and realize it’s all a dream?Last week I learned that Power Plays has won the Moonbeam Award in the Young Adult category. This means a gold sticker will be placed on the cover, and we all know how school librarians love stickers. This is a significant achievement for my humble little novel, and will certainly help reduce the damage done by a less-than-complimentary Kirkus review (where a girl who is bullied is summed up as “whiney”). I will attach a link to the Moonbeam website, so you can read for yourselves what this award, which is given out by Independent Publishers, involves. Meanwhile  I have purchased a new outfit for the Saskatchewan Book Awards ceremony (any excuse will do!) and am contemplating dusting off the 9000 words already completed on Power Plays’ sequel. Let’s remember that it took me three years to pen the first draft of the original — and I knew exactly what was going to happen in that one. I’m still not sure “who” the coach will be in the sequel, and just maybe . . .  I am afraid to find out! 

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