Contest!

First order of business: A Contest!!


 
For those of you have been nice enough to order and read Cloud City, I'm offering a chance to win a $25.00 Amazon gift card. All you have to do to win is answer a question: There is an error in the story timeline. Do you know what it is? First person who replies below with the right answer is the winner!

If you haven't ordered it yet,  and would like to, here's the  link .

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Books such as A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time all owe a sizeable part of their huge successes to their odd monikers."<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b>The full shortlist and their share of the vote:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">1) <i>Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop </i>by Reginald Bakeley (Conari Press) 38%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">2) <i>How Tea Cosies Changed the World </i>by Loani Prior (Murdoch Books) 31%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">3) <i>God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis </i>by Tom Hickman (Square<span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span>Peg) 14%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">4) <i>How to Sharpen Pencils </i>by David Rees (Melville House) 13%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">5) <i>Was Hitler Ill? </i>by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle (Polity Press)<span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span>3%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">6) <i>Lofts of North America: Pigeon Lofts</i> by Jerry Gagne (Foy's Pet Supplies)<span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span>1%</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">#  #  #  #</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Just returned from a wonderful visit with friends in Vegas and daughter in Havasu. The weather was perfect, sunny, warm; the lake smooth as glass. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YLEe_BwwS9M..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YLEe_BwwS9M..." width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Friends Patty and Jay Salam from Vegas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-frT8NejTjF0..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-frT8NejTjF0..." width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">"Family Portrait"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jcHH18ulZjM..." imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jcHH18ulZjM..." width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Jeanette and "Maddie"- who has her own FB Page!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">#  #  #  #</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">The Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer's Colorado Gold writing contest is open. Go  <a href="http://www.rmfw.org/contest/" target="_blank">here </a>for details. A good opportunity to get your manuscript in front of agents and editors. Deadline is June 1. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">And with that, I bid you all a good day!!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div>