Profile Editor. Writer. 9-5er. Lord of the Dance. Blurredline.com Apodis Publishing Fusion Fragment cterrill(at)blurredline.com Buy Goodbye, Darwin Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format Buy Blurred Line Amazon.com Amazon.ca Chapters.ca Barnes&Noble.com Read it free in PDF Format The Short Stuff "Learning Magic From Mint" - published May 2007 in Atomjack "Between Eternities" - published October 2005 at Speculative.ca "Smoke and Mirrors" - published June 2005 in Byzarium Submissions Log Total Subs: 25 Acceptances: 3 Rejections: 17 Withdrawals: 3 Subs Out: 2 Quality Blogs Scalzi's Whatever Dave's Blogography Bookslut The Struggling Writer SF Signal the0phrastus Paperback Writer Scribe's Writing Desk Nathan Bransford Lyons Literary LLC The World in the Satin Bag Book In The Oven The Word Perhaps We Learned Something... Words, etc. Archives March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 Et Cetera Cavan @ Last.fm Cavan @ LibraryThing Feeds Atom Feed RSS Feed	Wednesday, May 17, 2006 - Syrup I've been reading a lot lately, so I apologize to anyone who's getting bored of these book recommendations. Anyway, instead of taking a book to work today, I took by notebook containing Mass Romantic and wrote instead, which I plan to do for the remainder of the summer. Of course, by the time I got home today, though, I couldn't help myself. I had to finish reading Syrup. After I finished reading Max Barry's Jennifer Government, I mentioned how good I thought it was and how it was exactly the kind of novel I wanted to write. Well, his debut novel, Syrup, was better. It's a hugely funny satire on the marketing industry and corporate policy and is, to make up a word, unputdownable. I lost sleep over it last night and spent all day at work thinking about what was going to happen next. Anyway, the book follows Scat, a marketing genius, who comes up with the world's next million-dollar idea, a new soft drink for hip, cynical twentysomethings. He pitches it to Coke, where he meets their New Product Manager - the devastatingly attractive 6. Over the course of the novel, you follow along as Scat and 6 try to keep control of his ideas in the ruthless world of the Coca-Cola corporation. This one gets my stamp of approval. Cavan blogged at 6:10 PM | 0 comments	Progress Zilch! 0/0 Listening A.J. Croce - "Maybe I'm Amazed" My Music Reading Bright Lights, Big City - Jay McInerney My Library Watching Black Book: B Sweet and Lowdown: C Breakfast on Pluto: B Wishlist Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo Rachael Yamagata - Elephants...Teeth Sinking Into Heart