>The Canadian Hunchback Assignments Character Contest

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Hang onto your top hats! HarperCollins Canada has set up a new character contest. Yes, you could have a character that you've dreamed up in your amazingly brilliant head appear in one of the books from The Hunchback Assignments series! Besides the world wide fame that will give you, you'll also win a free signed book. Signed by the author himself (or Wayne Gretzky, but only if he accidentally signs it). This is your assignment. Go to the Hunchback website and click on the button that takes you to the contest.

Alas this contest is only open to Canadians. But never fear, there may be an American and an Australian version very soon, too.

Until then, I salute thee!

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>Indigo Saskatoon Signing

>Whew! Did a Hunchback Assignments signing at the local Indigo Books here today. Was pleased to see signage announcing the signing! ? Hey, wait a second! Diane Gabaldon has a bigger sign than me (I think it's large enough to officially be called a banner)? ? Is there some sort of pecking order in the writing universe that I didn't get a memo about? Next people will be telling me that Stephen King has a bigger house.

Ah, but here I am inside Indigo cuddling my books. ? Signed lots of them. Sold some, too. Read a book on my iPod during the lulls.

Next...Calgary Wordfest...
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>Using the Audiobook to edit Series

>new InsightBookReader('audiopreview', '9780739380208', 'The Hunchback Assignments', 'Arthur Slade', '0', '', 'http://www.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin/buy_landing.php?isbn=9780739380208');

I'm thoroughly enjoying the audiobook of The Hunchback Assignments (downloaded it off iTunes! Geek heaven). Jayne Entwistle does a lovely job of narrating the story. But as I listen again to the novel, I'm also madly at work on the second book in the series, The Dark Deeps. I am finding that the audio book is reminding me of little quirks I'd forgotten about my characters and is helping me to recapture the "style" I used in the first book. I never really dreamed that an audiobook would be an editing tool, but it has become quite helpful. In fact, I think I might listen to is some more right now!

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