The Fraud Police and a Winner!

Man, it's EASY to be insecure the first day after a book launch! But...

FIRST: our winners from yesterday... It was a very difficult decision. There were tons of great entries. Elizabeth and I EACH had favorites, but we thought... in addition... you know... we had the SAME second choice entry, so we thought instead of two winners, we would present three, ALL to receive copies of both of our books.


Elizabeth's Choice: Sylvia Bruggen and her geriatric mischief makers! (too funny—check them out)  (definitely agree with her on the merit on this one—VERY funny!)

Tart's Choice: Oh, Lady Gwen totally channeled me! I saw a lot of great posts, but this just REALLY spoke to me... the Brothel Owner that just wasn't quite fresh anymore...

Mutual Second Choice: And finally... this is additional... we each had our separate FIRST choices, but it so happened we had the SAME second choice, and thought that merited a prize, too... So Christine gets a prize for her Riverdance of Death.

So that's it... two winners plus an extra...

[appropriate emails to be sent shortly]

And then... yesterday as a book release day reminded me HUGELY of Neil Gaiman's recent graduation speech, which can be heard in completion HERE and is BRILLIANT, so you should definitely listen, whether graduation is related to anything you do or not, because it is MORE about living as an artist (a Writer even *GAH*)

Here is the speech, totally worth listening to no matter what. It's BRILLIANT, especially for a writer.

But my favorite detail of this is the Fraud Police... the folks who...once you achieve some measure of success COME FOR YOU because you are a FRAUD.

And I am feeling, at the moment, like... since I have a BOOK that has come out... that the FRAUD POLICE are coming for me. This is the fear I am worrying about today... that the Fraud Police are coming for me...

(note he says when you FINALLY feel naked, you are FINALLY making good art)