Ha! Soul, I think we can all agree that wandering tenses are bad. Probably the book was rewritten from one tense to the other at some point, but there are a lot of places to point the finger on those sorts of errors.
For today's moment of encouragement, this poster says her friend heard Catherine Stockett speak, author of THE HELP. THE HELP was rejected by over 60 agents.
http://aprilhenry.livejournal.com/903368.html
There you go!
Steve, the nice thing about owning a piece of the Pit is that the value can't depreciate.
Red, yeah... 60? Whatever. Amateur numbers.