Most of the world celebrates Labor Day on May 1. In America, as part of our anti-Communist movement, we decided that wouldn't do for us and made labor day the first Monday in September--which makes it today. Happy Labor Day. Labor Day is actually a holiday worth celebrating. Organized Labor did a huge thing in making possible the affluent society of the 20th century. With the virtual end of the labor movement in the late 20th century, the bell curve of income started getting lumpy on the ends and flat in the middle.

To celebrate Labor Day, I, uh, labored. I hit page 100 in the new book, came up with a possible title 'In the Shadow of Death.' It's been used but I have an interesting angle on it, maybe. Anyway, if I come up with something better, I'll use it. Until then, that's the title. After that, I did 100 pages of read-through/polish on NanoCorporate, and started edits for WHEN IT'S TIME TO CALL IT A DAY by Anthony Perham. As I said, I've been laboring.

I took a little break, though and finished THE RIVER KNOWS by Amanda Quick, which I enjoyed. This isn't heavy stuff--absolute beach reading. Still, that's what you need sometimes. Here's my review: www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2007/river_knows.html. Now I'm reading IN AT THE DEATH by Harry Turtledove. It's the latest his huge alternate history series about the aftermath of the south winning the civil war (it isn't pretty).

I'm going to make FINDING FUNBOY by Matt Golec the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. Journalism-intern Gus Frank was looking forward to a kick-back summer. But when his best friend steals his bicycle and then vanishes, Gus is guilted (by Funboy's sexy girlfriend) into looking for him. What Gus finds is that Funboy was in a heap of trouble when he vanished--trouble that catches up with Gus as a substutute. This complete mystery is only $3.99. Learn more, read the excerpt, or buy the eNovel here: www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_07/finding_funboy.html. Available in HTML, Adobe PDF, MobiPocket, Palm DOC, and Microsoft Reader LIT formats. Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

Rob