Couple of things I wanted to bring to your attention.

Hi! I'm baaaack! LOVED Chicago and Schaumburg, DON'T love the long waits at the airport, especially when they DELAY your flight because of the weather. :P

Checked my email, and found a couple of veeerryy interesting things to bring to your attention.

Seems there's a contest scam going on using the Sci-Fi Writers as a "sponsor". You can get the whole enchilada here:

http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2008/06/victoria-strauss-fake-contest-alert.html

Next, if you've been aware of the problems POD publishers have been having with Amazon since that company acquired BookSurge, it seems that the old "buy button removal" trick has gotten one UK POD company riled to the point where they've brought their high-powered authors into the fray.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2123221/Amazon-could-face-strike-by-authors-and-publishers.html