awesome agent

My awesome agent, Jennifer Jackson, is participating in a Katrina fundraiser. I didn’t know she was doing this or I’d have mentioned it earlier, but she’s offering up an auction on eBay: she’ll read and critique 30 pages of your manuscript and a 5 page synopsis, all for the low-low price of whatever the winning bid is. This could be a fantastic way for someone to get Jenn to read their stuff as well as donate to a good cause, so go bid on the auction!

wagon, the return of

Target points: 22 Points used: 22.5 Activity points earned/swapped: 2/.5 WPA used/remaining: N/A Wagon? What wagon? On the positive side, I haven’t gained any weight, or not a remarkable amount (1/2 pound qualifies as sufficiently unremarkable as to be within normal weight fluxuation, uh, things), and tomorrow is official weigh-in day. Losing weight is hard, man.

SQUEEEEEEE!

SQUEEEEEEEEE! I just randomly popped over to Amazon to check to see if there was a cover up for THE CARDINAL RULE yet, and there WAS! *SQUEEEEEEEEEE*! SQUEEEEEEEEEE! You can order CARDINAL RULE through Amazon (or your favorite online bookstore, I don’t care), and read the first chapter at my professional website, cemurphy.net. The book will be out in December 2005. SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

the wagon once more

Ok. I decided I’d better stop putting getting back on the weight-loss wagon off til Thursday, because if I did that I’d keep doing it indefinetely and possibly start gaining weight again. After the last two weeks of pretty much paying no attention at all to what I’ve been eating, I’m up about half a pound (which, actually, is an insignificant enough amount to almost count it as normal weight fluxuation), and I don’t want to see that scale number rise any more than that. So, back on the wagon…

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