December 19, 2008 Links and Plugs

Enjoy the Christmas weekend (and if you're reading this, it's probably too late to avoid the crowds at the shopping malls)...

• Check out PS Publishing's 10th Anniversary Special Offers. All I can say is sweet!
• Melissa Conway on What’s a Traditional Medievalist like me doing in the world’s largest SF Collection?
• Missed Jeff Vandermeer's awesome guest blogging series? Well, here's a summary.
  
• Jessica Faust on Starting An Agency.
• Thomas Sullivan on “HELP! HELP! THEY’VE STOLEN MY BOOK AND ALL THE WORDS AND EVERYTHING!”
• Deborah LeBlanc on The Sky Is Falling . . .Not.
• In the Washington Post, there's an article that The Newbery May Dampen Kids' Reading.
• The Mental Floss is featuring some guest bloggers/guest authors and here's an excerpt from Adam Winer's book How Dumb Are You?: Why Hemingway Used to Wear Women’s Clothing.
• David Carnoy of CNet on Self-publishing a book: 25 things you need to know.
• Genevieve Valentine on The Oldest Computer in the World (That's Not My Desktop).

Well, here's a collection with a tour-de-force introduction: Ian McDonald, Elizabeth Hand, Joe Hill, and Lucius Shepard:

The Land At The End Of The Working Day by Peter Crowther