Its time! I am sponsoring a contest to generate material for the Third Edition of the Ferret Poem Book (FPB). To give you all an incentive, I am providing prizes for several different categories. For those of you who are new to the FML, the FPB is a collection of poems, songs, stories and art work by the readers of the FML. The book can be downloaded for free, but readers are urged to send a donation to a ferret shelter if they like the book. The Second Edition can be downloaded from www.gis.net/~bpcoffey/poem.html. Categories for the contest are: 1) Short Stories 2) Haiku 3) Limericks 4) Free Form Poetry 5) Songs 6) Rainbow Bridge Prizes for each category will be A CHOICE OF either a $25 gift certificate to The Ferret Store, OR an original artwork provided by myself (assuming that I have time to do them all). In addition, each entry to the contest will get a chance to win one of two $25 dollar gift certificates. Details about prizes and rules are posted at www.gis.net/~bpcoffey/contest.html. Artwork prizes will be updated periodically. E-mail entries can be sent directly to me, but it would also be nice to see the poems/songs/stories on the FML to help get everyone's creative juices flowing. Anything new to the Third Edition is automatically entered. Hence all of the literary works that have appeared on the FML since the last edition could potentially be winners. I have all of them here and will contact the authors shortly. If you allow something to be included in the book, then you are automatically entered in the contest as well. Final date for entries is November 24th. The book hopefully will be available for download on December 1st, 2000. Bryan P. Coffey - Sudbury, MA [log in to unmask] & Weasel Warriors - Albi, Esef, Merri, and Mint www.gis.net/~bpcoffey/furball.html [Posted in FML issue 3211]