links, free books--and oh yeah. Essay up at S&S (!!!)

I got the most amazing email from my editor at Simon Pulse last night, telling me to go to http://authors.simonandschuster.com/. So I do, and next to the rotating set of pictures at the top of the page are a bunch of tabs--links to a tribute to E. Lynn Harris, info about Jodi Picoult, a poem by Ellen Hopkins, and the very last tab, Author Voices, says:

"An exclusive essay by Elizabeth Scott"

!!!!

To be featured like this?? Well, I think the !!!! says it all.

Anyway, my essay is about my favorite...