Sugar Mommy

It's official. Cathleen Bell is a cash-generating fiction writer. Sure, she made some pocket change when she published Oatmeal a few years ago, but yesterday the first check, from the publisher via the literary agent, arrived for "Slipping," her first novel (for children/young adults) which is due out in summer '08.

I remember reading the first draft of "Slipping" two years ago, finishing the last 100 pages or so on an Amtrak to Hartford for Christmas. It was this amazing experience, reading what I knew to be a fantasticly written story...by Cathleen. I mean, I think everything she writes is great, but this manuscript seemed to be on a different level. And so there I was on the train, basking in the warmth you feel after you've just put down a good book, but also exploding inside with pride at the fact that Cathleen had written it. I knew then, and I told her so when she picked me up at the train station that night, that "Slipping" was going to be published, no doubt. I was so right, and I am so getting an HDTV by the end of this week.