No sooner do I start feeling good about my progress on revising the novel, than I hear about this.

Aaigh! I don't think there's any way I can get the novel ready by March 15. And I really wouldn't be comfortable sending it out in its current form. (Also, this iteration of Backspace would present a scheduling conflict, but that could be worked around.)

Any fellow unpublished, unagented authors who are reading this, however, might do well to click that link.