OH. SWEET. MERCIFUL. HEAVEN.

Seen on a writer's loop - a new book sold to an actual publisher:

>>GET STUFFED: The Home Taxidermist's Handbook, a guide to making useful household objects out of your dead, stuffed pets, to Lindsey Moore at Crown/Three Rivers Press, for publication in 2007, by Nikki Tilbury at packager Ivy Press. <<

As heard at cocktail parties across the land in 2007: "No, just put your wineglass down on Rover. He was a good dog, but he's a coffeetable, now."

Who says publishing is dead?? Oh, the potentially vile puns runneth over . . . And I thought only my deadline was making me delirious.