Looks cool enough.  Call me when they cut $300 from the price.  That silly thing costs more than my new iPod.

I don't do a hard copy edit because printing 200 pages of manuscript on my dinky printer is expensive.  The first way I edited was to have two windows up on my computer, one with the first draft, and another blank one to type on.  Now I've figured out MS Word's Track Changes and Review features (version 2007), and I love it.  Whatever I delete gets crossed out in red so I can mark that I'm cutting it, but retain the material if I want it.  Whatever I add get added in red, so I know what I've added.  And I can put comment balloons on the side if I feel like I need to rewrite a section later.  It's a better system than what I had and I've gotten through this revision faster and felt more confident in what I've written.

Imagine if Jim had stopped Dresden Files after a trilogy.  Imagine all the good stories we'd be missing!

Aside from that, what I would like to see (or even write myself) is fantasy given the Unbreakable treatment.  Or in other words, yes, there are supernatural creatures, but they're not really out there.  They're in the same world as and are trying to evolve to a newer world.  I think Jim's done a good job of that, but I'd like more.

I'd like to see new (or even old) takes on classics like vampires and werewolves.  I'd also like to see some of the lesser-known creatures given a bigger role.

I'd like to see less sex for the sake of sex.  I know people do it, I don't need to see it.

And I'd also like to see some darker stuff.  Real life gets dark.  Stories should follow suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear - Universal Knowledge Repository.

"According to both fossil and DNA evidence, the polar bear diverged from the brown bear roughly 200 thousand years ago" - Polar evolved from brown, so pretty closely related.

Well why are we worried about global warming and the polar bear going extinct?  We'll just bread a new one from the brown bear.  I'm sure wikipedia has the correct dna sequencing and instructions on repeating the process.

After months of wanting it, after religiously reading Richelle's blog and seeing how cool she is, I finally bought Succubus Blues.  Now I just have to READ the darn thing (add to long list of books I want to read).  But for my part, assuming Richelle gets 10% royalties, I contributed $1.50 to the 'keep writing books' fund.

RMatt--any interest on the publishing end?  Wishing you the best!

Still working on it.  An agent is still (after two months) reviewing my manuscript.  No faeries in this one, though.  I'd like to work on a fae novel sometime.

"growing number of writers who have failed to interest an established publisher in their work."

If you have to pay someone to publish your work you're doing it wrong.  People are supposed to pay you, not the other way around.  The only way I'd go POD is if I simply wanted to have my books in a professional format and had no desire to see them published.

I'm in this process now.  I decided to start with an agent search, because they know much more about the business.  And most agents are pretty quick to get back to you.  I've heard from most within a month (some much sooner).  If all the agents I query reject me, then I'll query publishers.

Agentquery.com is good for agents.

Writers Market (a publication) is good for publishers.

PS:  Yokomsa, I actually live in Independence.  Whenever I go to Barnes and Nobles I'm on the lookout for Jim.  Of course, he might be a Borders, or even Amazon, kind of guy.