Consider yourself warned...there are important spoilers about Children of the Apocalypse here!

22/03/2009

IM Conversation between Skyla and Elaine regarding Children of the Apocalypse characters and plot twists.

Skyla: no, for reals! they all get new love interests
Elaine: Because all their current love interests die horribly?
Skyla: um...
Skyla: actually, I can't kill any lesbian love interests
Skyla: apparently that's a horrible cliche and I don't' want to Tara anyone
Skyla: I mostly hate Janine's name, so I desperately want her to go away...
Elaine: Curse you, Joss Whedon, for making us unable to kill lesbians anymore!
Elaine: LOL, now that's a reason to kill a character if I ever heard one. ;D
Elaine: Snerk, poor Janine, doomed by her name.
Skyla: yeah, pity I didn't rename her...
Elaine: Maybe she could decide to start going by her middle name?
Skyla: she can rebel--change her name, cut her hair...
Skyla: or turn out to be a runaway like Merri and Janine is a fake name
Elaine: Or maybe she's an evil minion, and it's been just a lie (including her name)! Okay, that would take a lot more planning ability than any character has shown themselves capable of so far, but w/e.
Skyla: she could be working with Thad! and that's not his real name either
Elaine: OMG, Thad's like her secret brother!
Skyla: OMG, yes! that's perfect!
Skyla: and...they're spying on everyone because...
Skyla: Michael ran out on his last Cher show!
Skyla: he owes people money. big time
Elaine: That's right! And the big dance competition is coming up, and it's their only chance to come up with the money, only Janine/Thad enter and are gonna win for EVIL.
Elaine: So only Gen/Michael can win the competition! After like a dance training montage thing.
Skyla: Yeah! And costumes
Skyla: they need to wear sandals so that they can show off their toenails
Elaine: Heels! Open-toed!
Skyla: yeah. omg this totally needs fanart
Skyla: they have to dance to "I Had the Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing
Elaine: Yes, that would pretty much be the only possible choice of music.

So we all know the story of Skyla accidentally overwriting the file for CotA Chapter 3-3. And how she was supposed to have it done and up by the 15th. And by now we've probably figured out that it's not up yet.

Truthfully, I've been insanely busy. I've been working a lot (promotions are awesome, although they usually come with more responsibility, meaning lots more to do). I just signed the lease agreement for my apartment. I've been spending several hours on my free days to do fundraising for my other job. I was going to spend last weekend getting shit written, but then I changed my plans and went to my mum's early. And while I did get some writing done there, I still have to bulk up the work and fill in some blanks.

But, of course, rather than writing, I spend my time trying to figure WHY I'm avoiding this so much.

It's not just the rewriting aspect. I mean, don't get me wrong--I fucking HATE rewriting shit that I've actually lost. It's happened a few times. Sometimes 'cause I'm stupid and lost the work. Other times, it's 'cause I'm stupid and deleted it (I get VERY self-destructive when I have bad depressive episodes, and do shit like cut my hair, delete files, and throw out things important to me). I had to rewrite the last several chapters of Hunter last year, and several chapters of CotA...

And I bitched, complained, and whined...and it was hard...but I STILL got it done.

But this time, it's different. I've had a few weeks since the incident. I should be good to go.

I...just...can't....do it.

To be honest, I was dragging my feet on this one even before I lost the chapter. Part Three of CotA contains all the major plot/character things I've been planning since day one. THIS is what I've been excited for. I could sit and write the final five chapters today because I know this part of the story SO well.

And I'm thinking part of my brain just doesn't want to go there.

The problem, as far as I can see it, is probably twofold. 1. I've been waiting so long to get here that I'll be sad when its over, so maybe I'm now putting it off. This is a strong possibility. 2. I know where it's going, and I know it's a direction that isn't going to win me any popularity contests with readers. This is an even stronger possibility.

I'm thinking it's a combination of things.

I've never been someone who's ruled by what readers think. I feel it's important to stay in touch with readers and to ensure I have a sense of how they're responding to things. It keeps me grounded. However, I'm not going to change anything vital because it pisses people off.

I think by the time we're into Part Four, everyone's going to be really on board with the events of Part Three. It's all necessary. But...we still have to get through Part Three first. And I don't think it's going to go over well.

And so, I'm dragging my feet.

Want to know how much I'm dragging 'em? I randomly started pulling out old stories to read to procrastinate, and I actually like my awful NaNo novel from a few years ago, Mournful Blade. Yes, the (other) bane of my existence. I glancing through it and actually thinking, "Damn...I can work with this. This has awesomeness!"

And MB was baaaaad so I know I've lost touch with reality and should really go back to CotA.

Yes, I'm doing a meme. Shut up.

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Dear Dan,

I don't really know how to tell you this, but I'm in love with your cat. I think I realized it last year when you peed your pants at the mental hospital and I saw you sit on my illegitimate child in Ghana. I'm sure you're middle-class enough to understand that I'm allergic to your earlobes. I'm returning your Hannah Montana underwear to you, but I'll keep your collection of butterflies as a memory. You should also know that I will always remember the pep talks and you should get that embarrassing rash checked.

Go milk a cow,

Skyla.

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How to play:

Dear (someone you recently talked to),
I don't really know how to tell you this, but(1). I think I realized it (2) (3) and I saw you (4) (5). I'm sure you're (6) enough to understand (7). I'm returning (8) to you, but I'll keep(9) as a memory. You should also know that (10) and (11)

(12),
(Your name)

1) What's the color of your shirt?
Blue - I'm in love with your cat
Red - Our affair is over
White - I’m joining the Convent
Black -Our romance is over
Green- Our socks don't match
Grey - You're a leprechaun
Yellow - I'm selling myself for candy
Pink - Your nostrils are insulting
Brown - The mafia wants you
No shirt - Purple hedgehogs want to destroy you
Other - I dislike your eyelashes

2) Which is your birth month?
January - That night you picked your nose
February -When I quoted Forest Gump
March - When your dwarf bit me
April - When I tripped on peanut butter
May - When I threw up in your sock drawer
June - When you put cuffs on me
July – When you smacked my butt
August - I think I realized it
September - Last year when you peed your pants
October - When we skinny dipped in the bathtub
November - When your dog humped my leg
December - When I finally changed my underwear

3) Which food do you prefer?
Tacos - In your apartment
Chicken- In your car
Pasta - Outside of your office
Hamburgers - Under the bus
Salad – As you were eating Kraft Dinner
Lasagna - In your closet
Kebab - With Jean Chrétien
Fish - In a clown suit
Sandwiches - At the Elton John concert
Pizza - At the mental hospital
Hot dog - Under a street light
Annat- With George Bush and Stephen Harper

4) What's the color of your socks?
Yellow - Ignore
Red - Put whipped cream on
Black - Hit on
Blue - Knock out
Purple - Pour syrup on
White - Carve your initials into
Grey - Pull the clothes off
Brown - bit of
Orange - Castrate
Pink - Pull the pants off of
Barefoot - Sit on
Other - Drive over

5) What's the color of your underwear?
Black - My boyfriend
White - My father
Grey – The Catholic Priest
Brown – The Montreal Canadian’s goalie
Purple - My corned beef hash
Red – My knee caps
Blue - My salt-beef bucket
Yellow - The elephant in the corner
Orange - My Blink 182 cd
Pink – Your ‘My Little Pony’ collection
Other --My illegitimate child in Ghana

6) What do you prefer to watch on TV?
One Tree Hill - Senile
Heroes- Frostbitten
Lost -Middle-class
Simpsons- Cowardly
The news - Scarred
American Idol - Masochistic
Family Guy - Open
Top Model - High
Annat -shamed

7) Your mood right now?
Happy - That your Ford sucks
Sad - How boring you are
Bored - That I get turned on only by garbage men
Angry - That your smell makes me vomit
Depressed – That we’re related
Excited - That I may pee my pants
Nervous - The middle-east is planning their revenge on you
Worried - How awful you are
Apathetic - That you need a sex-change
Silly - That I'm allergic to your earlobes
Cuddly - That Santa doesn't exist
Ashamed - That there is no solution to you being a dumb kid
Other - That your driving sucks

8) What's the color of your walls in your bedroom?
White - Your toe ring
Yellow - Your love letters to me
Red - The pictures from Vegas
Black - Your pet rock
Blue - The couch cushions
Green - Your car
Orange - Your false teeth
Brown - Your nose hair clippers
Grey - Our matching snoopy underwear
Purple - Your old New Kids on the Block blanket
Pink - The cut toenails
Other - Your Hannah Montana underwear

9) The first letter of your first name?
A/B - My virginity
C/D - Your photo with the moustache drawn on it
E/F - Your neighbors dog
G/H - The oil tank from your car
I/J - Your left ear
K/L - The results of that blood-sample
M/N - Your glass eye
O/P - My common sense
Q/R - Your mom
S/T - Your collection of butterflies
U/V - Your criminal record
W/X – Your sucide note
Y/Z - Your credit cards

10) The last letter in your last name?
A/B - Love your sweet, sweet ass
C/D - Always will remember the pep talks
E/F -Never will forget that night
G/H – Will not tell the authorites that you stole the whale from the backyard.
I/J – Mocked you behind your back constantly
K/L - Hate your cooking
M/N - Told in my confession today about the moose poaching
O/P - Told my psychiatrist about the bruises
Q/R - Always wanted to break your legs
S/T - Get sick when I think of your feet
U/V - Will try to forget that you broke my heart
W/X - Haven’t showered in a month
Y/Z – am better off without you

11) What do you prefer to drink?
Wine- Our friendship is ruined
Soft drink – I’m off to lead a new life as a lemon
Soda – I will haunt you when I’m reincarnated as an Eskimo
Milk - The apartment building is on fire
Mineral/Vitamin Water – I'm scratching my butt as you read this
Cider– I have a passionate interest for mice
Juice – You ruined my attempts at another world war
Water – You should get that embarrassing rash checked
Hot chocolate – Your Cucumber-fetishism is weird
Whiskey - I love Oprah Winfrey
Beer – Thanks for the Cocaine
Other – you should stop picking your nose

12) To which country would you prefer to go on a vacation?
Thailand – Warm tingly sensations
Australia - Best of luck on the sex change
France - Love always
Spain - With tears of sadness
China – You make me sick
Germany – Please don’t hurt me
Japan - Go milk a cow
Greece - Your everlasting enemy
USA - Greetings to your frog Leonard
Egypt – Kiss my butt
England - Go drown yourself

...and it has nothing to do with this blog entry, but I just thought I'd comment.

I've been on the apartment hunt ever since I got my last promotion/raise. Unfortunately, I can't afford much. There's a bachelor apt that's definitely affordable, and I'll look at it, but...I have no idea how I'm going to fit a double bed, couch, desk, and all this other stuff in there if it's as small as I think it is.

There's one that I'm coveting. I even have dreams about it (when I'm not dreaming about a huge scorpion in my house). Hardwood floors, high ceilings, two bedrooms...and if I had another $200/month, I could probably swing it. My biggest problem right now is that one of my jobs is for a non-profit agency, and it's contract work...so I'm out of work for usually four months out of the year. So I have to, like, save and stuff.

I desperately wish I was one of those authors who could bring in that kind of money through donations for the eserials, but I honestly don't have the time to get out and promote it like I probably should--not when you consider that only a tiny fraction of readers ever actually support serials with $$ or even reviews. It's remarkable to me that so few of the readers of my novels actually translates to serial readers.

One commissioned cover a month could do it...as could one client a week for house cleaning. If I knew anyone looking for a roommate, that would be doable too, but then we'd have to be able to tolerate one another for extended periods of time, and there are few people I can manage to do that with.

And so I have to be sad that I can't get the apt I so desperately want. Woe is me.

So here's the short version of what happened.

I pulled out the chapter to beat into shape today and saved it in a file type that I could use on my friend's version of Word. Turns out I saved over the real file. I've lost a nearly 5000 word chapter.

Add to this the fact that I currently work around 12 - 14 hours every day...and you hopefully understand why I didn't have time to rewrite it--and when I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it. Why do I work 12 -14 hours a day? Why, so that I can earn an income that's still at the poverty level and continue to write free stuff that I'll never see any money for. Of course.

Anyways, I was really upset and stressed out about it. And then I got great advice from fellow author Elaine Corvidae. To paraphrase, she said fuck it--I am to tell you guys that this is the situation, and I'll have the chapter up next month. It's better that I take some time and do it right than stress out over the rewrite and rush myself.

Now, I'll do you one better--I'll promise to get it to you by the fifteenth of the month. AND I'll have chapter four up, as usual, on the first of the next month.

So while you're all mad at me and looking for something to read, please head over to Elaine Corvidae's site for some Sci-Fi free serials and Judy Bagshaw's site for a soap opera serial. Or...um...gosh, you could head over to my books page and purchase something of mine...

I'll leave you with a video from the awesome Repo! The Genetic Opera, which I just watched during dinner.

So I did some writing at my mum's. Got another chunk of April's CotA chapter done, more or less finished next Monday's Curio Killed the Cat chapter and started the next, as well as some other stuff. Transferred it from the Alphasmart, cleared out the old files, saved, and was ready to do some editing...

Or so I thought.

Turns out I saved over Monday's Curio chapter. I'm left with the crappy 500 words I had before I left.

*headdesk*

I've had this happen before. I've lost files. I've intentionally deleted them all and destroyed backup disks during a total mental/emotional breakdown. I've had my ex refuse to give back my old computer long enough to let me retrieve needed files. So I've had to Rewrite before.

It's not the same as an edit rewrite. It's awful, especially if you have no memory, like me. Trying to remember some of the great lines, or, like, trying to remember what the hell happened...

Guys, this Cuiro chapter had another love letter by Alastair to Liam. It was comic gold!

And now it is gone. And I weep. I could probably put out a chapter in a couple of hours, but the wounds from losing it are too fresh...it would be painful to continue right now.

So you'll probably get it late on Monday.

At least I still have the chapter after that one complete...

Yes, my roots have apparently always been blonde. Please, go ahead and mock me.

...I am a hot blonde now.

So I've got lots of new stuff coming your way.

New Children of the Apocalypse chapter has been posted. Yay! Now I have to scramble to get the next one done--it's too short, needs a serious rehaul, but I've been too lazy to do anything about it). We're on Chapter Two of Part Three: The Ritual, and the girls are--of course--getting themselves into a spot of trouble...read it all here: http://www.apocalypsenovel.com

Tomorrow (well, likely tonight) will see the posting of the next Curio Killed the Cat chapter. Chapter Five: Praise Jesus, Not Satan sees more trouble befalling the shop. Is there truly no such thing as bad publicity? Head over to http://www.curiokilledthecat.com shortly to find out.

I also added a little poll on my main website, asking who your favourite of my heroines is?
>http://www.skyladawncameron.com/poll/1

I'm otherwise doing okay. I'm on medication right now and the (hopefully temporary) side effects have kicked in full force today. I can barely sit up to work on the computer, and am incredibly thankful I don't have to walk to work today. Lots of pain = badness. I have a few covers that I'm trying to get finished today, as well as some acquisitions work. Between all my jobs, I think I've been working fourteen hour days for the last couple of weeks...ah, the life of a poor person. ;-)

As an aside, WTF is wrong with some people who insist on kicking you while you're down? I'm so happy that all of the new people I have in my life now are quite the opposite (although I still think I'm doomed to always have potential in laws who dislike me). At the very least, it's incredibly comforting to know that they can kick me all they want--they invariably underestimate me and the things I'm capable of doing...

I'm going back to work now, where I shall continue listening to this awesome album Voodoo Blues, which I highly recommend.

I don't know why I didn't know about this website sooner. Probably 'cause I haven't gone hunting for silly people to mock in a long time...but this is just too great.


www.fstdt.com - Fundies Say the Darndest Things.


Oh they really, really do. People gather fundie quotes from around the internet and send them to this site. Good times.

Here are some gems:

"Of-course religious people do bad things sometimes. But at least their religion forces them to acknowledge within themselves the evil they do. Atheists have no such guidance. They are just like psychopaths! Cold, mechanical, soul-dead!"

Look, just because I abort fetuses that I conceive after lots of gay sex on the spot where The Ten Commandments stood before I demanded it be removed does *not* mean my soul is dead. It's just...hibernating.

"The women of America would do well to consider whether their much-cherished gains of the right to vote, work, murder and freely fornicate are worth destroying marriage, children, civilized Western society and little girls. They can at least console themselves with the thought that, in the long run, it doesn't matter what they do, because the women's-rights ideology is an evolutionary dead end, and it is increasingly apparent that societies embracing it will not survive."

Hmm....I've weighed your argument and I've come to the conclusion that yes, I do think it's worth it.

"A woman wants to abort a rape child? She should have thought of that before she walked down that dark alley without a male prescence, not to mention she should have thought before putting on revealing attire."

[Yes. It should (be legal). Otherwise you're screwing over the women who don't deserve their fate.]

"Are you calling them victims now? Should've stayed in the house where it's safe."

I think you should be careful about what you're suggesting. According to the guy above, I've destroyed Western civilization so that I can have the right to murder...and if you don't like it, you shouldn't say such dumbass things, and stay at home where it's safe.

"What does a functioning brain have to do with the Bible? "

I'm not even going to touch this one.

"Me and like-minded Christian students are trying to organize a mock stoning of openly gay students at our campus. We will be using crumpled up gray/brown construction paper to represent rocks, and will recite bible verses in opposition to their sinful nature. We will throw a volley or two of these "rocks" at every Gay person we happen to encounter that day."

There's this wacky quote I heard one time...can't remember where...it had something to do with sin and casting stones...can't remember who said it. I think it was some old hippy.

"There are NO exceptions to abortion whatsoever. It is God's will that the woman was impregnated, and therefore she must birth the child!

I'm glad to see there were no "abortion is OK if she was raped" replies. If she was in fact raped, she must play the hand that was dealt to her, accept it as God's Will, and raise the interracial baby as her own."

This one was nothing special until that "interracial" line. I literally burst out laughing. These people can't be serious...

"Jesus is not a Jew. Jesus was Jewish."

Thanks for clearing that up.

"In my opinion, if an animal in the wild like a swan is caught being gay it should be shot on sight, disinfected, and used to feed the poor."

I've always said that we could stop global poverty completely if we just killed gay animals and fed them to people.


And finally:

"Masturbation can sometimes be wrong and it can sometimes not. If you masturbate thinking about how pretty the flowers are and how you want a puppy, essentially that's not wrong. But most times, that is not the case. I believe that when one masturbates a high percentage of the time they are fantasizing about a sexual partner therefore making masturbation lust. Lust, as the Bible states, is a sin. But masturbation is something that people in general should stay away from because it's hard not to lust whilst doing it."

I'm going to make that last sentence my sig line at forums from now on.

There are sister sites: Racists Say the Darndest Things, and Conspiracy Theorists Say the Darndest things. Wheeee!

An oldie, but a goodie.



I need to buy some big earrings.

Do you ever wake up from a dream seriously thinking that something you dreamed is an actual memory and it takes about an hour to realize that it's not?

That has nothing to do with this blog entry, but I just thought I'd pose the question.

I just heard last night that Wolfe has been assigned an editor. I'm both happy and sad about this fact. Happy because the novel is moving forward, readers will finally get to read it ("When is the River sequel coming out?" is probably *still*my most often asked question!), and because god knows it needs a good edit. I'm sad because I turned in the draft a year ago and I was not in the best head space when I did it...so I'm half expecting to hear, "this sucks!" or something, LOL. It's a decidedly dark book and I'm not sure how people will respond to it, but here's hoping readers will mostly love it.

There's a new chapter of Curio Killed the Cat online for your reading pleasure. It was a kind of awkward chapter to write, but I'm totally stoked about the next three--I introduce a new character and it gets really fun.

And because I've been watching a whole lot of Twin Peaks lately...here's an awesome video I stumbled upon:



(Have I mentioned what a Cooper/Audrey shipper I was? Annie was great, but...I loved him and Audrey. Also, Bob still scares the hell out of me.)

So we all know I work in acquisitions. And I get my fair share of replies to my rejection letters. Most vary between stuff like "u suck!!!! I will b famus 1 dey!" and "thank you very much for your response." (Guess which ones put you on my auto-reject list in the future?)

Today I got an interesting one where the writer thanked me and claimed to be a fan of my work, mentioning one book by name and saying he hoped to see more books in the series.

Hmm. Well, that's nice.

Now I'm going to talk about something that *seems* unrelated.

I was kinda grumpy this morning due to seeing more website hits* from a person looking for illegal copies of my work. This guy was looking for Bloodlines and he's from Taiwan. So I grumbled a bit, but that book is less popular and therefore had no torrents, so ha! Too bad, Mr Thief!

Anyway, back to the rejected author. We review a lot of stuff at a time, and I did blank on the specifics of the book, so I glanced back at the cover letter. It seems this author--while American--was staying in first China, and then Taiwan for awhile.

Hmm.

I look at the time stamp on the reply email.

1:33 am EST.

I look at my site stats again.

Someone from Taiwan decided to Google "Skyla Dawn Cameron" at 1:18 am EST. Said person looked at my book page as well.

At 1:34 am EST, the same person returned to my site, this time after searching for "Skyla Dawn Cameron torrent" and has been back several times, still looking for things like "ebook torrent skyla dawn cameron" and the like.

*headdesk*

Not knowing me, I'm fine with. I'm pretty much a nobody anyway. But more fucking piracy? After submitting to an E PUBLISHER? Christ.

I'd love to share with you the name and email address of this person, but that information is confidential. So I'd just like to say congratulations: that's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever seen anyone do during my seven months in acquisitions.

Anyway, I hope you got a giggle from it. ;-)



* Yes, I check site stats frequently. I have a free counter, and it only holds 500 entries, so if I don't check, I miss important stuff. Although I got approximately 20 000 unique visitors last year, I do take a few minutes to follow the path of something that looks a little off. I'm nerdy that way.

Because I haven't seriously planned out much with Curio Killed the Cat, I'm at that stage where I'm wondering, "What's this about?"

I mean, besides the obvious stuff like, "silly people do wacky things and try to keep their store from closing." Not premise, and certainly not plot (I suck with coming up with those anyway). What it's about. At it's core, what are the themes? What am I trying to say with this?

I don't plan these things--I just have to trust they'll present themselves. Which probably means I'm a hack, because I'm sure real writers actually think about this shit rather than run away with the story immediately.

But I do think maybe I've hit upon it.

Although you can hear the "official" theme music by viewing the opening credits (the song is "Monster Promenade" by Kevin MacLeod, and you can download it at www.incompetech.com), the unofficial song struck me when I was walking to work one day listening to music. The song "Careful What You Wish For" by Jonatha Brooke came on. And it really stuck with me.

You can hear the song here: http://www.jonathabrooke.com/music/careful-what-you-wish-for

Lyrically, let's look at the chorus for a sec:

Now that I have everything
I'm a puppet on a string
Someone's got the end and I'm unraveling
And here's the thing
I would throw it all away
If I could only hear you say,
"Baby I'll stay, baby I'll stay"

(You can see the rest of the lyrics by going to the page above and clicking on "more" under the song title on the left.)

Curio Killed the Cat is about being trapped.

There's a sense of claustrophobia in that song, IMO, and that's very much what the CKtC characters are feeling a lot of the time. You'll see this more over the next few chapters. But everyone has something they want, and either they get it--and life isn't so peachy keen--or if they do get it, they'll regret it.

I'm not sure if this counts as spoilers yet or not--it's information from the Wiki, but it hasn't appeared in the story yet. Please avoid the rest of this entry if you're a spoiler-phobe. ;-)

Briar wants her boyfriend back. She's consumed by the idea--trapped by it. And if she gets what she's wishing for--which may or may not happen at this point (I don't know yet)--it'll likely never be the way she wants it to be. But I think at this point she's trapped by being in the pattern of the wanting. And she's so certain that she should always get what she wants that she won't look beyond that.

Lilith is trapped by both internal and external forces. She's very much the kind of person who will stick to her ideals so much that she won't follow what she really wants. And now she's possibly losing her job--which she really does love--and there's nothing she can do about it. Because of Lilith's heritage (being a succubus), and her demonic powers--which a lot of people would wish for--she's stuck into box where perhaps in her heart, she doesn't want to be.

Liam has always had lofty goals. He's always wanted bigger and better things. He's worked his way up to High Priest at a small coven, but he still doesn't have the prestige and that he desires. And even if he had everything he wishes for, he'd still want more.

Other characters--Alastair, Sebastian (whom you haven't met yet)--all wish for something, and at the same time, it's holding them back.

So I'm just glad I think I figured that out. And so ends my nerdy writer post for the week. I'll stop babbling now and talk about puppies or something.

And the winner is...the lovely and wonderful Jasmine Santos! Jasmine wins her very own copy of any of my books in print (or an advanced review copy of a new one), as well as a $10 gift certificate for Fictionwise. Jasmine, I'll be dropping you an email, so give some thought to what book you might want. Thanks to everyone who blogged about about e-piracy for me!

ETA: I didn't post this before because I missed it for some reason...let's all marry Colin Firth!