async,
as chow said, it is the moderaters job to, well, moderate us. He is here so things don't go way out of hand, and they did. Half the regular members changed their avs to say "proudly liberal", including chow here, as a result of that thread. The I got an Idea thread started to get off topic, and to turn into one of those threads that get out of hand. He stopped it before he got too far.
as for my novel, it is about A man hired to solve a crime, which is a theft at a high security storage facility. He then is pulled into a giant undercover project to, well, that would spoil it, now wouldn't it? He goes after a man, who is a retired FBI agent, that has presumedly done the crime, which was stealing some material very dear to the laberatory that uses the storage facility. No police are involved, and that is why they did hire this man, who was rejected out from the police department for unknown reasons.
sound good?