Sera Maddox Drake

You made my day and week in all of this. Thanks for the comparison to  @WendyyWolfe  :-) It was kind of you, thank you.  Wendy is just the sweetest ever.

I noticed how much space the award and review pages are taking up at the end of _Ancilla_ (a lot - and I keep having to make new pages) and so I've decided to put them in a separate book all their own. Each award and review, furthermore, will get its own page, for the sake of clarity.
          
          I will take care of this when I am no longer at work, typing between calls.
          
          Additionally, I will continue to add the award stickers and review blurbs to the 2024 Awards Book to the appropriate page for each contest when entering my results (win, place, show, or nothing at all).

While driving to brunch yesterday, my husband and I passed a senior living community that had just been built and was advertising that it needed new residents age 55+.
          
          And it hit us: OMG. We're seniors. We're old. It's official. We joined AARP last year for the discounts, after a few years of solicitations from them, and now this. 
          
          Seniors. 
          
          I must remind myself of the old saying "Don't mourn being old; not everybody has that privilege."
          
          Happy Monday.

Thank you very much for adding my two latest books to your collection! 

Hey, thank you so much for adding Rivalry to you reading list! Hope you enjoy the story✿♡

Thank you so much for the follow!! Your support means the world to me! ♡

This looks like a good one, too, but it's filling up fast in the more popular categories, so if you want to participate in a popular category, hurry. I'm not sure I got my Fantasy entry submitted in time. Romance is FULL already.
          
          Science fiction and mystery need more submissions. So does action/suspense. So does horror. So, I think, does comedy. 
          
          The host is also looking for judges. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/370373605-sunflower%27s-book-awards-2024-open

CONTEST SHOUT-OUTS
          
          I just entered the Salzburg Writing Race, because the idea of being part of a relay racing team interested me (I asked to be on the Romance team, by the way). The Salzburg Writing Race can be found here: 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/368893638-salzburg-writing-race
          
          I'm also going to give the Celebrating Easter Award 2024 a shout-out. I am not going to enter that contest (good grief, how many contests have I entered, by now?) but I would like to point out that the contest is still wide-open and in need of many contestants. 
          
          I've also offered to be the judge for the LGBT category, although I haven't gotten around to filling out the application form yet. 
          
          The Celebrating Easter Award can be found here:
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/366085672-celebrating-easter-award-2024-o-p-e-n
          
          Finally, I am going to put in a call for entries AND judges in the Prose Pioneer Contest. Both are needed. What are you waiting for? Come and join the pioneering fun! 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/367160742-prose-pioneer-contest-2024-open

If I'm allowed to post this, it's my third and last public shout for the day.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/370325556-inferno-awards-2024

I'm also entering the Boba Awards
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/370477740-%F0%9F%85%B1%F0%9F%85%BE%F0%9F%85%B1%F0%9F%85%B0-%F0%9F%85%B6%F0%9F%86%81%F0%9F%85%B0%F0%9F%85%BD%F0%9F%85%B3-%F0%9F%85%B0%F0%9F%86%86%F0%9F%85%B0%F0%9F%86%81%F0%9F%85%B3