November 27, 2008 Links and Plugs

Happy Thanksgiving! (We don't celebrate it here but you might want to read this.)

• SF Signal's latest Mind Meld asks Who are the Most Memorable Characters in the various genres. Can you guess who mine was? (Answers at the link.)
• Here's a nifty program for all you writers/editors who sends out their manuscripts to various editors and/or alpha/beta readers: TextFlow. Basically it tracks down the changes in various documents. See the video for a demo.
  
• Fantasy Magazine has two interesting articles up: Why Don't Readers Comment on Fiction? and Ten Things You Should Know About Twilight.
• Here are some cool practices from a comic shop. They even have a Zombie Emergency Defense (ZED) program.
• Jessica Faust on The Anatomy of a Book Deal.
• School Library Journal's Best Books of 2008.
• Looking to enter the comics industry as a publisher? Publishers Weekly crunches the numbers.
• John C. Wright attempts to explain Harlan Ellison.
• Latest acceptances for Fantasy Magazine. (Go Rochita!)
• Wizards of the Coast posted a few hours ago their submission guidelines for fiction in Dragon Magazine but the link seems to be gone. ($6.00 per word, they get to keep the right, if memory serves.)

And for your book plug:

Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher