OK, here's the contest I promised. There weren't as many suggestions as I would want, so I'm going to spice things up a bit. As previously noted, the winner gets two prizes: insertion as a character into the novel in progress, Sacrifices, my attempt to write a Hardy Boys-esque supernatural thriller; and their choice of either Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith when it's released, World War Z by Max Brooks, a Christopher Moore novel, or Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I'm also... read more