Look what we found!

DH brought this home from Aldi yesterday*.



We roasted them up with the bake from the package bread that was made in Holland**



and voila! Zwei im Weckla.

All hail Aldi. :)

*Fine print: Neuschwanstein is nowhere near Nuernberg--it's just the picture they put on all their German-imported products. And while it is technically part of the modern state of Bavaria, Nuernberg would never consider itself Bavarian, having been a member of that state for only 200 years. It is Fraenkisch, thank you! But for the purposes of English translation, "Bavarian sausage" works as well as anything.

**No, I do not even want to know what chemical processes have allowed the wonder of bread made in Holland to arrive on the other side of the world in a state fit to eat. And yes, I know it isn't real bakery bread. But it's real-er than Wonder bread, that's for sure!

Word lengths of popular YA books right now--Part IV

An addendum to the data after a question posed at Verla Kay's site regarding the percentage of debut novelists:

As to debut vs. experienced authors--I don't think that this is the best set of data to use if you want to find out how long debut novels are, because *most* novels don't debut on the NYT bestseller list or get named in YALSA. However, for the numbers-oriented, here are the number of debut novels out of the total for each word count bracket. (Note: I mean debut as in first book ever--counting ALL genres and age groups. If you're a successful adult thriller novel, you will simply get more attention with your first YA novel than someone coming out of the cold unknown. Of course, the newcomer could have a more successful book in the end...)

So, debut/total:

100k and up:  6/28    (21%)
90k-99k:          2/9      (22%)
80k-89k:          5/30    (17%)
70k-79k:          7/26    (27%)
60k-69k:          8/41    (20%)
50k-59l:           9/42    (21%)
40k-49k:          3/26    (12%)
30k-39k:          2/18    (11%)
29k and under: 1/23    (4%)

With this sort of skewed data, debut novelists are STILL just as likely to sell a book that's longer as they are one that is in the more traditional 50k-60k range.