- Justine kicks off the new year with a thoroughly great post on rewriting. I love revision because the blind panic I feel most days while writing a first draft–is this even a book? is this the worst book ever? is this really the best I can do? is it possible I have no idea what happens next?–only rarely kicks in during it. (Although, yes, sometimes despair does show up.)
- The Cybils finalists are out. The SFF shortlists (one YA, one for middle grade and younger readers) look excellent, and I’m very excited to start reading my way through them and deliberating with the rest of the category’s jury.
- A new Jeff Ford novel, The Shadow Year, comes out in March. YAY!
- Chance discusses the book in question in this story, Marvelous Effect, which sounds, um, not so marvelicious.
- While we were traveling, I totally missed all the great posts related to how the writers in John Klima’s Logorrhea anthology chose their words.
- Philip Pullman in the Guardian on a topic near and dear: narrative voice.
- Chris McLaren has a whole bunch of good links about all sorts of stuff, including new tattoo ink, electromagnetic sense perception, disappearing doorknobs, and Joss Whedon.