As some of you have noticed, the cover for Stealing Heaven is now up on Amazon (and Amazon is once again running their 5% off all pre-orders special, which means you can get a copy of Stealing Heaven for about $11 (!))

We had a bit of an ice storm here last night, and all the trees look gorgeous today. (They certainly look much better than my windshield, which I had to scrape with a cd cover because I couldn't find my ice scraper. The result is one mangled cd case and a windshield that--well, could really use an ice scraper)

Also! Don't forget that if you're a student in grades 7-12, you still have time to enter the PUSH Novel Contest.

And, as usual, I have a bunch of links to share:

Who else but always awesome Maureen Johnson would realize that Pride and Prejudice benefits from the addition of a zombie?

Tess Gerritsen has more thoughts about the difficulties extremely successful authors face and has a wonderfully candid post about how writing is great, but also carries its share of unpredictablility .

John Scalzi offers Unasked-for Advice to New Writers about Money -- There's been some back and forth about some of his points, but if you do nothing else, read numbers one and two.

Following that, take a look at agent Jennifer Jackson's must-read post about advances

Finally, agent Nephele Tempest talks about what she looks for in submissions, and offers a great deal of very practical advice as well.