Two big books come out today that you should know about, Margaret Atwood's YEAR OF THE FLOOD and James Ellroy's BLOOD'S A ROVER -- but only one of those authors is hosting a write-alike contest.
Even if, like me, you haven't caught up on the trilogy (the first two books being AMERICAN TABLOID and THE COLD SIX THOUSAND), you can still impress Ellroy with your noir-writing skills in a competition sponsored by Dailylit (the folks through which I'm subscribed for free to OF HUMAN BONDAGE over e-mail). Post your 50-word mini-crime-noir here by October 4, and you could win a signed copy of BLOOD'S A ROVER. Don't forget, she wasn't wearing pink!
Related: Earlier this year I read L.A. CONFIDENTIAL and named it one of my favorite books of 2009 so far; I wondered about running into Atwood in New York and talking to her about how often I've re-read THE ROBBER BRIDE.
Wanna mess, Margaret? Photo of Ellroy, summer '09: ALA on Flickr
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