Sign on to Authonomy and support my book! Please.

Hi everybody! Here's the web address for Authonomy, Harper Collins's answer to the slushpile. If you'd like to support my YA mystery, The Dark Side of Town, go to this website:
http://www.authonomy.com/
Sign up and then put my book on your bookshelf. Here's a link to The Dark Side of Town page:
http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=15839
Just click on "Back the Book."
Please. It could put my book on the desk of a Harper Collins editor.

A Slugfest for Authors

I've just signed up for Authonomy, Harper Collins' new way of dealing with the problem of the slush pile. It's an intriguing twist on solving an old problem. Basically, they've decided to let us all slug it out and they'll read the five who come out on top every month.

Wow. What a concept.

I like the idea of competing, but I'm not sure about the contestants also being the judges in this bout. Of course, if I come out at the top of the heap, I'll be touting the method on street corners.

If I lose, I think I'll just go back to the old fashioned method of shopping my manuscript around to various agents and small publishers.

It's a rough old world out there, folks.