Welcome to fun. I am so enormously pleased and excited to announce that pre-orders for my first full-length novel, Stays Crunchy in Milk are now open. This is the big one, for me. I have never been as proud of a work that I have written as I am of this book. Which is not to say that I don’t love Crazy Little Things and Strange Angel. I love them both and wish you would consider buying more of them. No, Stays Crunchy in Milk is just something else.

First of all – it isn’t horror. At all. It is … if you like the way I write here on this blog, the pop culture entries, bits of my life, all of that stuff? This is the book for you. It is a story with action, adventure, humor … all the good stuff stories should have. It was a joy to write, and I tell you honestly having had to reread it last week for more proofing, it is still a joy to read, even though I wrote it.

After the jump I am going to reveal, for the first time anywhere, the cover and I am going to talk way more about the book and what it means and where it came from and what it is. I will also tell you about the contest for pre-orders, the special gifts, the special editions of the book itself and I will also let you pre-order the book right from this post itself. So, if you have ever enjoyed anything I’ve written, anywhere, I ask that you come along for this ride.

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So you guys know those rubber bracelets that they make? The ones that say “LIVESTRONG” or “YOURMOM” or “My other bracelet is the Batmobile” or whatever?

Well.

I have four of them, bright yellow, words engraved in a nice TNR font, that say:

What Would An Editor Do?

And I will give you one of them for free. Sort of.

Here is how this is going to work. I am having a contest. It is open to anyone on the planet. So long as they’re an editor. So feel free to spread this around. Anyway the contest is simple!

Write a story about your strangest editing experience ever.

That’s it. That’s all you have to do. You decide what that means to you and you write something and you submit it and the four winners will each have their stories published here and get one of the bracelets mailed to them.

And now for the fine print, presented, at no extra charge, at the same size as the rest of this!

* Contest is open to anyone living on planet Earth, so long as they’re an editor or were doing editing work at the time of their story.

* Contest will be judged by a panel of editors.

* Contest is open from 9am EST March 2, 2009 until midnight March 13, 2009.

* Winners will be announced, on adampknave.com and notified by email, by Monday, March 23, 2009.

* There is no fee to enter, one entry per person.

* All entries must be mailed to adampknave @ gmail.com with a subject line of “I WANT THAT BRACELET” and the entry itself in the body of the email. No attachments.

* An entry in the contest gives us the right to post your entry (one time only) on adampknave.com and all other sites that adampknave.com feeds into.

* An entry can be as short as it needs to be to tell the story.

* An entry can not, however, be longer than five (5) thousand words.

* Judges are not secret but at this time I have not heard final confirmations from all of them so they can reveal themselves as they see fit.

* Judges decisions are final.