Is it a question? A realization? An affirmation? Maybe it’s a bit of pride niggling at the back of the head? Superstar has social and egotistical connotations caught up in it. Those make the word a label either for derision or aspiration. However you look at it, there are a lot of words ending in -ion involved. Anyway, the point of the title, “Who’s a Superstar” is to prepare you (and me) for an announcement.
I am going to be a superstar!
I don’t mean that in the media maven, tabloid scandal way. The wonderful team running Superstars Writing Seminars has selected me for the Don Hodge Memorial Scholarship. That means I get to attend Superstars 2024 for free! The scholarship covers registration, food, lodging at the historic Antlers Hotel, and access to some of the biggest names in the writing business.
Those writers not familiar with Superstars should be. It is a conference focused on the business of writing. While there is a craft day add-on available, the focus for the long weekend is on what to do with the completed, professionally edited, beta-read manuscript and on what more to do once the book is released.
Speaking of the craft day, I get to go to that, too. The giggly schoolboy in me looks forward to being Jonathan Maberry’s tackling dummy in his fight scenes class.
To say winning the scholarship is an honor doesn’t do justice to the mélange of emotions swirling through me. Part of me worries about living up to the expectation of what getting this scholarship means. Do I have it in me to be a writing superstar? Who’s a superstar, anyway, and what does that mean? Well, I’m headed to the seminar in 2024 to find out.
