Dad, Husband, Cubmaster...Author?

I have been having a rough month or so between work and stress so I attempted to take a short hiatus from blogging to regroup and refresh my brain for the A to Z Challenge that lays ahead of me in just over a week.  Well the hiatus lasted about three days thanks to Mod Mom At IndieDom who broke me out my hiatus, then there were a couple of awards and of course Wordless Wednesday (which is easy by the way).  So in a nutshell my hiatus lasted less than 72 hours.

As I was watching TV last night, Duck Dynasty by the way is an awesome show, I received an email.  I had to read this email several times to make sure it was sent to the right person and to my surprise it was.  I didn't want to jump the gun last night so I teased a little on Facebook and Twitter about big news.  Well it is big news, at least for me...you see there is this site called Life Well Blogged and they have three published e-books (all of which have cracked the top 10 on Amazon's Best Sellers in Parenting).  I was prompted to submit a story and I did a few months back.  I didn't think anything of it until the email...

I'm going to be published in Life Well Blogged's fourth book!  I will repeat that...in bigger letters...I'm going to be in the next Life Well Blogged book, complete with a bio!  Holy crap on a cracker!  The last time I was this excited was all you can eat wing night at the Hangar and that was a messy night.

Not only am I going to be published in the book but I get to be part of a charity that helps Autism because the book is getting released on April 2, 2013, which is World Awareness Autismday.  A portion of the proceeds go to Autism Speaks, which is pretty awesome.

On top of that, once the book is released I will have a chance to give away five copies to my faithful followers, so that means I get to figure out a cool giveaway/promotion idea.  Hmmmmmmm, the wheels are turning.

So there you have it, my big news, yours truly is going to be a freaking published author!  Maybe this whole blog thing is working out after all.

Third Place Still Gets A Trophy!

Tied for third place out of 29 contestants?  Yeah, I'll take that!  I just wanted to thank everyone who voted for me and to congratulate everyone who participated in the first Dude Write Challenge!  All of the blog posts were great, but in the end it all comes down to who was on top...kind of like my sex life....oops, too much info.

Congrats to the Six-Fingered Monkey on getting first place with his New Pussy post!  Go and read it, hysterical!

Second place went to Nest Expressed with his 10 Dolls That Haunt Your Child's Dreams post.  Thank the maker I have boy Minions and don't have to worry too much about dolls...not too much...

And in third place was myself YAY ME! and Working Dan who posted about grooming issues in Give Them What They Want.

So with this being said, I am pretty damn proud of myself because there were some professional writers thrown into the challenge too..you know the ones who actually get paid to write...

Ready or not here comes Friday, remember my new Dude Write post will be up on Friday and voting commences after the weekend....I normally don't beg but I am hoping to at least retain third place again...so please vote!

It worked in Shrek...and most people refer me to Shrek....