Um, teddy bears concealing drugs? That's the plot of one of my novels.

I should have figured it would happen. One of my later novels, The Teddy Bear Conspiracy, is essentially about this:

$30 Million Worth of Heroin Seized in the Bronx.
Traffickers Concealed Heroin Bags in "Build-A-Bear" Toys: 12 Arrested

Okay, it's not exactly that, but it's pretty close. That means that a good portion of my novel already happened in real life. Well, it's sort of different, but it's pretty hard to feel good about marketing a book when there's an article on the DEA site, here, that could be a synopsis of my novel.

Well, for the record: My novel doesn't have heroin in it. Nor did the teddy bears either. They had the formula for a new drug in it. And these guys were arrested for $30 Million. My criminals were pulling off a job that was worth $1 Billion. So it's a bit different. Plus, the bad guys were a splinter group of the CIA, and there was no DEA involvement at all (the novel was written before the DEA was doing anything more than going to Colombia and getting killed by drug lords).

And also, no teddy bears were harmed in the writing of my novel. Well, one of them. But he deserved it. Stupid teddy bear and hiding my diet Dr Pepper on me!

Anyhoo.

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