Miscellaneous (possibly boring) writing-related updates

• Queried an agent regarding Sharra's War. It intrigued her enough to consider it for a while, but in the end she turned it down. She did say she liked the premise, though, so that's something!
• I tried Highlights with a short story (it's been a while) and received a hand-written note in response. The theme of my story wasn't fresh enough, but they liked my writing and told me to try them again. No problem! I've got just the story idea for them. Now to get it written!
• Had my daughter proof-read Sharra's War and I'm more than half-way through getting all those hard-copy edits onto the Word version on the computer.
• Sent a quiz to Pockets and got a reply this weekend that they are holding it for consideration. Yay!
• Can't wait for NaNoWriMo so I can start writing the novel idea banging around in my head!