“My uncle won the lottery and dropped dead. Two weeks earlier he’d divorced his wife over an argument about peanut butter: crunchy or smooth?”

My entry to the copyblogger.com, twitter writing contest.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if I could get a book deal off that sentence. Normally I wouldn’t bother because novel writing is so poorly paid and overrated. But, the challenge of getting a first novel on the basis of a sentence is juicy indeed.