Winning this year's Pitchapalooza as part of The Texas Book Festival was a monumental moment. Sitting in the crowd in the Capitol auditorium, I enjoyed hearing the other pitchers and each piece of helpful advice the Book Doctors David Sterry and Arielle Ecstat and the other panelists had to offer, and ecstatic at the words, "You, in the green tie-dye-ish shirt." Although not tie-dye, it was bright and colorful, and attracted their eye, and I'll wear a clown suit any day for that! Though my knee was shaking just like Shaky Knees (you'll have to read my book), never was I more determined and driven to be heard.
To be heard among a crowd of budding talent and enthusiasm, at a place and a time of hope and dreaming... and drowning of inboxes from other budding, hopefuls, like myself, not only to be heard, but to share a piece of something I truly believed in, sweat over, lost sleep for, couldn't shake from my thoughts when I should've been doing work from my "real" job. Yes, it was a moment I'd been waiting for. Then, in all its surreality, the next phrase, "It didn't take long for us to agree on the winner, Aim'ee Teague."
Wow. Need I say more... What's next? I will not rest until I see Devin and His Shape-Shifting Sister in the hands of my little Devins, where it belongs.
Hear from the Book Doctors:
http://www.thebookdoctors.com/keeping-austin-weird-the-book-doctors-take-pitchapalooza-to-the-texas-book-festival
