The Man tried to shut us down (plus a cool website)

...but it didn't work. Our faithful readers (yuk-yuk) might have noticed that the blog hadn't been online for more than a few hours before Google blocked it with some terms-of-service-violation namby-pamby. Turns out they thought we were bots of some kind. It probably didn't help that Robert's new screen name is "Robot84."

Nice going, my friend.




Anyway, check out this website! It's put together by editors at HarperCollins. It's called Authonomy, and it's kind of a marketplace for book ideas. You can publish any manuscript of 10,000 words or up for others to read. You read theirs, they read yours, and at the end of the month, the five best land on the desks of HarperCollins editors. Pretty cool idea.

I don't have anything long enough to publish there yet -- but keep an eye out. In the meantime, I'm thoroughly enjoying "Royal Flush," by Scott Bartlett, and "Space," by Alexander McNabb.