Nine months have elapsed since our last blog post, but we have good news for our Plotz-The Novel followers.

No, we didn't have an interested literary agent or publisher to contact us with an offer that made us instant millionaires. Instead, we went to Amazon.com's CreateSpace and, well, created our own 289-page paperback publication.

We are encouraging our Plotz-The Novel followers to go to www.amazon.com sometime on Friday, May 13, 2011, and purchase our novel. The cost is $15.99. Once on the website, click on "Books" in the menu and click "Books" again. When you arrive at the "search" page, type in Marshall Bruney (our pseudonym) and click "Go." You will go to our shopping page.We have chosen Friday the 13th as our "Shop Plotz Day" because we want the novel to be a bestseller contender for Amazon's booklist. We learned at a 2009 Carolinas Writers Conference breakout session that Amazon takes note of heavy one-day sales -- thus the bestseller idea.

Read and enjoy. We will gladly accept praise (okay, and criticism). If Plotz-The Novel is a hit among our reading followers, there is an idea for a sequel floating around in our heads.