I just sent out 191 rejection letters for submissions to Best Women’s Erotica 2007. I still have more to send. For some fucked up reason I decided to use Yahoo as my mail client for book subs. From the first reply to the last, I was stopped mid-send by Yahoo’s spam guard and required to decode a 4-6 number and (uppercase/lowercase) letter character combination. It was *so* not fair. All but 13 of the replies (done by hand, not in a batch) stopped me and made me solve an obfuscated string of characters. I got two wrong.
It reminded me of being a kid; I started reading really really early — I remember starting school a year ahead of everyone and then being pulled out of kindergarten to be put in a 4th grade reading class. I could read the books no problem, but fell asleep because reading class was during my naptime. At that time in my life, my mom took me on a lot of long trips to Stanford to sit and do tests and solve puzzles just like the Yahoo ones (my mom was a Stanford engineering graduate, maybe that’s why she took me there when I scared her by being able to read so soon).
Anyway, yay I got all the fucking puzzles right. I’m a mutant. I’m never, ever using Yahoo again; it’s a terrible mail service. I have a friend who works at Yahoo, and guess what? She doesn’t use Yahoo Mail.
On another note, isn’t that a pretty cover? I think the book *just* showed up on Amazon, because I saw the cover a while ago and was asked to hold off on blogging about it. What’s cool is that the model emailed me to say how excited she is to be on the cover — with her girlfriend going down on her, wow. I don’t think you can tell, though, so Barnes and Noble won’t get their panties in too much of a bunch. No more than usual, anyway. Yay for sexy covers!
Bored tonight? Check out Perversion for Profit. Better yet, watch the amazing Wonder Woman video on my pal Chriso’s blog! I’m going to go spin around in circles in my living room now.
