We Have a Winner!

No, I haven't forgotten last week's contest. I wanted to make sure everyone who wanted to got a chance to get their idea in on how to use Death Switch in a story. I didn't get a lot of entries, but the ideas folks came up with were good ones, so it was a tough decision. But our winner is:

kit!

I particularly liked kit's take on having the main character disappear and go after the bad guys because it "takes one SOB to go after another." My kinda story.

kit, send me your snail mail address and I'll shoot you a copy of BREAKING COVER. Send it to dustyr AT nc.rr.com.

Now, just for grins, here's another real story just waiting to be a novel (or a movie):

There are three vaults in Arizona that store contraband nabbed by US port inspectors and customs agents on Arizona's 370-mile border with Mexico. A reporter from the Arizona Republic visited one of them, in Nogales, where racks are packed with 27,000 pounds of marijuana, boxes of speed, coke, and guns. A file cabinet holds half-a-million dollars in cash...

Life Imitates Art, and It's More Than A Little Creepy (with CONTEST!)

You know how, in some thrillers, a character will entrust the Big Secret to a trusted friend, to be sent out if the character disappears? Well, meet Death Switch, a service which sends out emails upon your unfortunate demise. Like so many things on the 'net, there's a free and a pay version:

The basic service is free and includes a single email. The pay service, $20 a year, allows you to compose up to 30 emails with 10 recipients each. Only the pay service allows you to include attachments. Death Switch determines when to send out the messages by sending out messages to you on a regular basis. If you fail to respond to enough of those messages in a row, the emails are mailed out..

Consider the possibilities....and post them here. Best one wins an autographed copy of BREAKING COVER.