Friday Four or Five

I actually have a lot of great news this week, so here goes.

1) March Madness is here, and if you haven't heard, I don't know where you've been! If you want to tackle that wip and need a little accountability with great prizes, climb on board. It's not too late. Check in today withhttp://shanasilver.livejournal.com. Tomorrow you check in with ME at http://ellestraussbooks.blogspot.com/ or http://ellestrauss.livejournal.com/

2)There's still time to enter my contest celebrating my new agent. Two fab YA time travel books up for grabs. Deadline is bedtime March 14th.

3)I have a new sister! Rachel Mercaldo and I recently discovered that we share the same fabulous agent, so that makes us agent sisters. I did my very first blog interview with Rachel--check it out here. Next week I'll be interviewing Rachel (she's only 19!), so be watching for that.

4)I've blogged a lot about the importance of a strong beginning. Here's our chance to show off our opening scenes writer muscles. Kelly is hosting the In The Beginning Blogfest, April 2. Go see Kelly,sign up and join in for some blog fest fun!

5)And finally, I'm a Semi-Finalist! From Georgia McBride's YALITCHAT newsletter:
Last month I announced the semi-finalists in the Sourcebooks Fire (Teen Fire) YALitChat Writing Contest. There were 45 out of hundreds of entries. Congratulations to everyone who entered.

Have a great weekend, everyone!