When you drive hundreds of miles to a bridge tournament, you want to make sure you get your money's worth--which is insane. I swore I'd never do it again, but I played three sessions of bridge today (each session is 24 boards over something like 3.5 hours). We got slaughtered in our morning session--we ran into some pros who were very nice, very friendly, and completely demolished us. In the afternoon, we played okay and advanced. The evening session wasn't a complete disaster, but it wasn't good, either. We fell behind in the first half and weren't able to make up the difference in the second half. A big part of what happened was me--I chose to bid 5 Clubs going down three doubled (not vulnerable). The other way, our teammates sacrificed at 5 Hearts--going down. Mega-ugly. By the time you've played seven hours, (after two sessions) your brain is starting to feel fried.

Since we're knocked out, we don't have to get up early tomorrow. That's the good news. The bad news is, we may end up making no gold points at all this tournament. That would be bad.

Nothing to report on the publishing front. I'll publish DEADLY STING by Michael Paulson as soon as I get back to Texas. But it's not really anything I can do from the road--I need my equipment.

I'm going to make IN THE WEREWOLF'S DEN by Rob Preece the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. Warder Danielle Goodman wants to hunt vampires. Instead, she gets the low-prestige job herding a werewolf. Except this werewolf is different--and very dangerous. The longer she spends with sexy Carl Harriman, the more Danielle realizes he's not just dangerous to her body--he wants to change the way she thinks. Sexy and action-packed paranormal. Only $3.99--available in HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, eReader and Microsoft Reader formats. Learn more, read the free excerpt or buy the book here: http://www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2005/werewolf_den.html. Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

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