We recently wrote a quick email to Anne Jackson, speaker at Dirt and author of Mad Church Disease...  Here's the email - stay tuned for her response.

Anne,  thanks for agreeing to exchange emails with me even though your book "Mad Church Disease" has already made you a multi-platinum selling author, global domination public speaker and you now have enough money to purchase a small country.  Please don't forget me when you need someone to taste test all your food for you before you eat at a fine dining establishment.  Anyways, I have an idea for your new book.  And in the spirit of the Dirt Conference...of course this idea will be free.

You're known for being one of the most beloved queens of blogging and your books are selling off the shelf, right?  So what's next from here?  Can you possibly get any nicer?  NO.  Mad Church Disease helped people realize that they're not alone in the struggle to balance life, work and the burnout of working in a church.  From here - we think the next best thing is for you start working on your follow up novel titled: "Rabies".  It's the perfect transition to what happens if people don't get things in check.  They should heed the advice in your book but if not....it doesn't look good.  Here's how it works:

You start slowly changing the way you look and act in order to promote the next book.  Trade in your Volkswagen Jetta for the biggest Dodge Ram truck they make.  Tinted windows of course and put some of those fake bullet hole stickers down the side.  Start introducing more meat into your diet and work on your scowl.  People will automatically wonder what's going on and everybody knows curiosity sells books.

Think of it as the ultimate Robert DeNiro method act of all time.  Dirt is all about how to use what you have and being creative and we think this is a good way for you to start working on a new transition over to fiction.  As you get meaner and meaner, the public curiosity will help catapult you into stardom like you've never imagined.  Of course, we can stage some coffee house fights with you and a fan... or even catch you hunting without a license.  Whatever is needed to bring your level of "mean and reckless" to an all time high. 

This does have a slight chance of backfiring like it did on Steve Martin, inventor of the Opti-Grab in the movie The Jerk....but it's a chance you're going to have to take.

Volley for serve.  You're up, Jackson!