Thanks, Lord

It looks like the Mancow offer is legitimate. I had my publisher FedEx a copy.

It's funny; when I contacted the syndication company directly, I got a weird mailing address in Oregon. I have a feeling the book my publisher sent there will never see the inside of the Mancow studio. When I contacted the show using their Internet form, which you would think would be a complete waste of time, they got back to me and gave me an address far from the first one.

It's bizarre. So far, I'm getting better exposure on my own than the exposure I'm paying other people to get me. Two major big-city shows and one very big syndicated show. How can that be? I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. You'd think the professionals would mop the floor with me.

I have to think long and hard about future PR efforts. Firms are so expensive; do I really want to blow that kind of cash, if there's even a chance I can do the same job for almost nothing?

I'll tell you what. Even though it looks like I'm in for a long, expensive battle, this is a hell of a lot better than sitting around suing people. Law was okay, but it's hard to be a lawyer without negatively impacting society, and I'm much prouder of what I'm accomplishing now.

On the down side, it's almost 11:00 and I haven't been about to get up long enough to take a shower.