So my wife and I were in a local gun store the other day, looking for a small pistol for her, and the guy behind the counter not only notices her tatoo, but recognizes it as Cthulhu.  This leads to a brief discussion on Lovecraft and gaming, and it turned out that he knew a friend of ours.  Now if I had written that, would you believe it?
The book is up to 88k+, and I recently got that rarest of visitors, a personalized rejection letter.  Until I read it I had forgotten that my first submission, back in 2000, I think, also got one.  If I can ever find it, I'll put it up on my wall, as if I remember correctly it was from Weird Tales.