{"id":3361,"date":"2015-05-29T10:41:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2015-05-29T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:57:38","slug":"good-luck-charms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"Good luck charms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long, long ago, when the year still began with 19, my friend Chris OBrion<\/a> gave me my favorite piece of book swag ever: a keychain in the likeness of Squid from Squids Will Be Squids<\/a> (John Scieszka and Lane Smith). Given Squid’s M.O. to just give up and grumpily go home, I suppose it’s odd that she became an\u00a0\u00a0icon for the success I hoped to someday achieve, but she did. She also\u00a0became my good luck charm. Sure, she was a little\u00a0negative, but\u00a0I pretended she found my manuscripts pleasing. Every time I printed one out and packed it into\u00a0an over-sized envelope, I brushed Squid’s\u00a0tentacles over it before sticking it in the mail. These days, I brush her\u00a0tentacles over my keyboard instead. It’s not as elaborate as Nomar’s batting ritual<\/a>, but it’s mine.<\/p>\n

So what about you? Do you have any good luck charms or rituals before sending off\u00a0a new manuscript? I’d love to know that Squid is not alone (even if she might prefer it that way).<\/p>\n

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Long, long ago, when the year still began with 19, my friend Chris OBrion gave me my favorite piece of book swag ever: a keychain in the likeness of Squid from Squids Will Be Squids (John Scieszka and Lane Smith). … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,57,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustration","category-kidlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}