I was going to blog about how cool Evanescence’s new album is (I managed to find a few songs in advance of the release date; I pre-ordered the full album yesterday!)–however, I just received an email that I won a free copy of Infoquake by David Louis Edelman.

Now, here’s the cool thing about winning a signed copy of Infoquake. I heard a lot about this book at WorldCon this year–Lou Anders really talked it up too–and I promised myself I’d get myself a copy. I just didn’t have the room to buy all the books I wanted to buy at the Con.

Later, Spike the Surfdog comes over at work and says, “David Edelman’s got a contest going on over at his blog for copies of his book. We’ve got to enter it!” So I sat down, wrote a few things (Hugh Jackman was Spike’s idea) and sent it off.

Spike gets to read the book first since he showed me the contest. Anyway, as the Stinky Hobo would say, “What a good day!”

I placed honorable mention in the limerick contest–so I’m mentioned twice on the page there. Take a look at the limerick AND the letter I wrote to win a copy.

I wonder if my luck will carry over to the Writers of the Future contest, whose results are starting to trickle in. I’ve given up hope on being a finalist (word is that they’ve called them all)–but I’m still crossing my fingers for a quarterfinalist or maybe even a semifinalist. Unfortunately my story “Robes of the Gods” isn’t ready yet to send into Q4 of the contest.