Hi, this is KAM Wyland, and you're listening to the seventh episode of the Word Play

Podcast. Starting tomorrow, I'm officially on vacation. My week of R&R starts early tomorrow morning with a flight out of Denver.

I'll be spending the week with friends in Tennessee and doing my level best to make my workaholic brain shut down for a while.

After the hectic months of preparation for beholden, make my workaholic brain shut down for a while.

After the hectic months of preparation for behold the dawn's upcoming publication, I'm

ready for just about the first time in my life, to take an honest to goodness vacation and think

about work, not at all. In fact, aside from a little

copy editing I hope to get done on the flight to Tennessee, I doubt I'll even be thinking

about my writing too much. Shocked? So am I, actually. In preparation for all this intoxicating time off, I've been working

at TurboSpeed this past week to get caught up on blog articles and various other deadlines.

I was interviewed last week by Australian blogger Tabitha Bird.

On her blog, Books, Bubbs, and Writing Blabber. We chat about writing as a gift, working through

discouragement, and my book, A Man Called Outlaw.. If you're interested you can read the entire

interview at Tabitha bird dot blog spot.com slash 2009 slash 07 slash author dash interview dash k m ylandM-Y-L-N-D dot H-T-M-L-E-N-T-M-L.

In other news, the prize drawing for the Warhorse bumper sticker remains open until Tuesday, July 21st at 6 o'clock p.m. Mountain Standard time.

To enter, answer this week's question, in what gear did Pope Innocent II ban the

tourneys, the huge mock battles which were the predecessors of the slightly more civilized jousting

tournaments. You can submit your response using the form at the bottom of the left-hand column

on my blog at wordplay-KM Wylandam yland dot com or email it directly to me at kam

dot whylant at yemail dot com

listeners of this podcast can also get a head start on next week's contest which features the double prize

of a behold the Don keychain and a wordplay pin. To enter answer the

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