- Actual posts on hold until draft is finished. In the meantime:
- Some chatter about first-person, present tense. I do love some point of view chatter.
- Andrea Seigel got a truck, and it's way fancier than Janet Reno's.
- "The Lie that is Bookscan."
- Alan's fantasy world-building guide: "7. Are feelings considered to be insects or mammals?"
- Colleen's latest "What a Girl Wants" finds several authors considering the girl detective. Well worth a read.
- Maud posts some delightful snippets of her exchange with Alexander Chee about Ford Maddox Ford and Jean Rhys' blood-letting in print after their affair.
- Laura Miller makes some recommendations for Buffy fans in need of a fix from the current urban fantasy explosion. It's nice to see someone outside the field write about the newer iteration of the urban fantasy subgenre without bashing it, and noting some of its most interesting characteristics–the coupling of contemporary fantasy with the hard-boiled PI voice and the prevalence of blue collar heroines in it, for instance. Particularly happy to see the Kate Daniels' series get namechecked.