Today is Eric D. Goodman’s birthday. He has been a member of gather since Jan 17, 2007. Eric lives in Baltimore, MD. He has graciously prepared his own birthday celebration for you to get to know him. How I love it when I don’t have much to do.
Below is his story:
April 25 is my birthday. For the second year in a row -- coincidently -- I am spending my birthday away from my family at a writing conference in Chicago.
"What do you want for your birthday," is the repeated question from family and friends. And for the second year in a row -- not so coincidently -- my answer is more or less the same. "I don't need anything, really."
My wife, children, family and friends are healthy and happy. I make my living as a writer, which was my goal since early childhood. We have all have what we need and most of what we want. We're fortunate and thankful for that.
So my follow-up answer is the same as it has been for years: if I could have my true birthday wish -- anything I wanted -- it would be to get a book deal for my fiction.
I have dreamed of being a published novelist for 25 years, ever since that third grade writing assignment turned me on to the craft a quarter of a century ago.
The agents and publishers have had good things to say about my novel-length fiction, but no firm bites yet. The closest I've come to that elusive book contract is when I became a semi-finalist in the Gather First Chapters Writing Competition.
So now, I can give a more specific answer to what I want for my birthday this year: I want to win this standard book contract with Simon and Schuster.
You can make my birthday wish come true. Voting ends tomorrow, on my birthday, April 25. Help me make it to round two -- read and rate chapter two of TRACKS now.
Guess what I'll be wishing for when I blow out my candles? Here's the link to TRACKS:
TRACKS
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976948471
Happy birthday Eric from all your friends at gather, we hope we have made your day a memorial one.
Note to the birthday club members. If you have not yet submitted your birthday dates to me please to so. I need to prepare well enough in advance. Furthemore, when I send you the questions to do your celebration I need to have them back, at least one day prior to your birthday.
Carol Roach: winterose.gather.com
The birthday Club:
M.Ed, B.A.
Publisher: Storytime Tapestry
Author: Angels Watching Over Me:http://www.lulu.com/content/644485
Picking up the Pieces: A Woman's Journey: www.publishamerica.com
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Comments: 33
Happiest of birthdays to you!!!
we love you
Birthday
to YOU...all the very best, Eric and all the best publishing Tracks! Salud.
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Well, I didn't advance to round three in the First Chapters contest, but that's not to say the birthday wish won't come true one day. Perhaps another birthday.
TRACKS is already on its way to a literary agent I met a couple weeks ago at a conference. And It's being featured on the local NPR radio station this friday, 88.1 in Baltimore.
Thanks again for your well wishes, and I return my best to you.