Shout Out Thursday

Starting a new feature to be known as "Shout Out Thursday." Why Thursday? Why the hell not?

I'll desperately, desperately try to attempt to remember to remember to do these every Thursday. *smiles innocently*

So without further adieu:

Shout out to the fabulous Cindy Pon who gave me a little love on her much-read (translation: "she has twenty times the followers I do") blog. She's more than "a little bit sweet" people, and more than a little bit talented.

Shout out to The Authoress whose Miss Snark's First Victim blog is hosting its fifth Secret Agent, Are You Hooked? competition for unagented authors. Not only is it an amazing opportunity to have a living, breathing agent evaluate the opening 250 words of your novel and *gasp* give you feedback, but the winner, chosen by said agent, always wins a fabulous prize. If you don't already follow MSFV, I suggest you run over there right now and do so. And read some of the comments on the contest entries as well. It's always educational.

Shout out to the cockpit crew of US Airways flight 1549 who, after striking a flock of Canadian geese, managed to land their plane in the Hudson River where it floated like a top while rescue ferries hauled all 146 passengers and 5 crew members out of the fuselage. You can be my wingman any time.

And finally, a (snarky) shout out to the guy who goes through our garbage dumpster every friggin' morning at 6am. It's so lovely to have a built-in alarm clock every friggin' morning at 6am when you slowly troll through our trash, pulling out the recyclables and smashing down the aluminum cans right below my open bedroom window every friggin' morning at 6am. Thank you so much for helping the environment! Thank you so much for reminding me that I'm a bad person for not doing it myself! And thank you so much for waking me up every friggin' morning at 6am.

Shout out.