- Jeff Ford gets a personal letter and free product from Fluff. Now that's customer service.
- Sarah Prineas reflects on the year since her first book was published.
- An excellent essay by Sarah Waters on the inspiration for her new novel and including a bonus list of her favorite ghost stories.
- Also in the Guardian, Ian MacKenzie's top 10 artworks in novels.
- Errol Morris on The Uncanny Valley.
- Stephany gets all up in the vampire house with a Twilight binge.
- Sarah has a link to China Mieville on crime fiction, and offers some thoughts of her own.
- Last night we had the world's most fabulous mole over polenta (which I also had for post-critique lunch today, yay!), and tonight Christopher's cooking pad thai (which never disappoints). A girl could get used to this. Now I will write the fiction for a bit.