Monday is the first time I'll be sending out my new pitch, excerpt, and manuscript for An Ordinary Drowning. I'm entering the new-and-improved manuscript into the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) contest. It would be invaluable to my chances of snagging an agent if I could manage to get a Publisher's Weekly review. Or perhaps it would be even more invaluable to me to learn sooner rather than later that my over-wrought, self-important schlock belongs in the recycling bin.