Contest Winners, a Vignette, Google craziness, and a Trip!

Congrats to Sophia Chang for winning Bitterblue  and donating a banned book of my choice to my local public library. Woot! Thank you all for making my birthday a great one!

My vignette, The Cobbler, is now published in the fall issue of Vine Leaves Literary Journal. It's a super short read and there's plenty of good stuff in this issue, so check it if out if you have time! 

I totally forgot to link to this in the craziness of last week, but check out this post on the Lucky 13s Blog on insanely weird things that debut authors have Googled for the sake of research. I have one thing to say on this subject. HOOCH. And no, that wasn't my research question!

Also, a trip!

Not the stumbling kind. Although since I mentioned it, I'm destined to fall in a pothole now.

Central Park, NYC  (Photo is public domain)
Today, I'm in New York City. Yes I am! My old home for nearly 16 years before I moved to the midwest. I'm visiting the Penguin offices, my editor Kathy Dawson and my agent, Eric Myers, for the first time, along with family and friends.

Hopefully I'll have pictures later!

In the meantime, I'm curious. What is the weirdest thing you ever Googled for the sake of research?