When an author enters the Writer's Digest Self-Published Awards, he/she gets a written critique of the submission as part of the process.  Incomplete Passes didn't win an award, but I got my critique today, and I'm happy with it. 

The judge wrote: 

"The outfit on Linda's bed with harlequin diamonds and matching tights sounds so awful I wonder she didn't burn it on sight.

"I've lived several places and never felt love for a team until I moved to Eugene, Oregon. Our college team, the Oregon Ducks, hold us all in thrall, here. But Linda has so clearly told her readers what the Packers and Vince Lombardi meant to this girl, her friends, and to Green Bay is downright refreshing. I was interested in her trying to find a Nice Jewish Boy because it added another dimension to this book. So is her crisis over turning thirty-five. Thirty-five, for crying out loud. A mere baby. But times were different and she felt middle-aged. What saved her sanity was writing Third and Long and she did it well, in spite of the domestic angst it caused.

"I don't find a lot of flaws in this book, and I love the title."

I'm a first-time author, and I'm thrilled every time someone in authority tells me I wrote a decent book.  Also, it sound like I made this judge laugh, and that's one of the best things anyone can do for a person.