Yeah, winning the Newbery, it was you know first very exciting as an event. I think as a writer, it was really affirming and it, you know you’re always doing these things and wondering does this have value to anybody and it felt like the world was saying yeah, these are, you have some good ideas. Keep going. So it gave me, I feel like it gave me confidence going forward.
Which, let’s see, that’s been about almost 10 years now so I’d say the confidence lasted. I don’t know, it started to be not quite as strong maybe, but it really did make me feel like the world was encouraging me.