- Feeling lucky? You can still go comment at the Book Smugglers to win a shiny Blackwood ARC until tomorrow night at 11:59 p.m. Central; open to everyone, regardless of home country.
- Speaking of the Smugglers, they also have a fabulous interview with Barry Lyga (and giveaway) up today. I cannot wait to read I Hunt Killers.
- Ann VanderMeer just announced the TOC for the Steampunk Revolutions reprint anthology she's editing and, boy, is it awesome–and I'm not just saying that because Christopher's "Nowhere Fast" from Steampunk! is one of the stories.
- At the Awl, Jim Behrle on How to Write the Great American Novel: "The desire of adults who are not YA authors to place themselves inside the lives of kids to make a more-perfect and more beautiful version of themselves in youth: Puking sound. YA authors are actually performing a vital service: Please continue doing that, YA authors! There’s nothing self-conscious and plodding about what you’re up to." The whole thing is hilarious.
- The delightful Gabrielle Gantz has a great interview with Michael Ian Black at the Rumpus.
- Robin Wasserman has a fancy new website design. And soon her super-fancy new book, The Book of Blood and Shadow, will be out. You really, really want to read this one. I LOVED it. And not just for the alchemical mystery at the heart of it (though obviously that is one of my favoritest favorite of things), but because of everything.
- A super post from the wonderful Elizabeth Bluemle of The Flying Pig bookstore: "He Won't Read Books About Girls."
- Gavin Grant, Small Beer Press magnate, interviewed!
- Art installation of 28,000 potted flowers at an abandoned mental health center. Gorgeous. (Via Kat Howard.)
- Have a good Friday, y'all. Get it? *wink*