Interesting facts, some new to me, some just to you

1. Even if you don’t have a manuscript under submission, when an agent calls you, your heart thinks it’s about your work. It beats wildly for all of three seconds, and then you realize she’s just asking you about contest results.

2. There’s an RWA recognized, highly respectable publisher that is looking for Single Title submissions. Must be very sexy, and very special, since they have limited publication space. They have a reputation for jumpstarting some very big careers — and their books ROCK! Think about it.

3. According to one of those all important internet quizzes, I’m worth $1,778,971.87! Doesn’t sound like much. How much are you worth?

4. Drew Barrymore has done more in her thirty years on the planet than most people have ever dreamed of. Makes you think, huh? makes me think I’d better get on the ball.

5. Since I’m still ruminating on Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide, I’ve been re-reading my collection — not of his writings, it’s too soon for that — but of Transmetropolitan. It’s an awesome comic book. The premise, as far as I can tell, is Hunter S. Thompson in a dystopian city of the future, with a machine gun. Anyway, read it, love it.

6. I don’t watch The Gilmore Girls, but it was on last night. Um, Rory goes to my alma mater! How did I miss this? Must have been in all the papers while I was in Australia or something. Anyway, props to the set designer, because it looks SO REAL. I understand they have Yale consultants on set. In addition, I got to see my Buffy-baby Danny Strong (Jonathan), playing a super-accurate, wormy little YDN editor. I laughed my ass off!