contest winners and links

Congrats to CPlusha, who won the recipe contest with her story of high school brownies that were so good that people risked detention for them--and for the recipe itself! Congrats also go to Krista, who won the fake boyfriend contest--I think she had me at "the age of MySpace" which seems like a hundred years ago -- but wasn't!

Moving on, I've got loads of links to share:

Bob Mayer on the "good old days" of publishing -- "Way back in the days of Faulkner, Hemmingway, the Algonquin Round Table, ...