RIASS stuff:
Guest post: The Tale of Two (or Three) Genres
Book Review: Something Like Normal by Trish Doller'Rating: 
Book Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver'Rating:
Giveaway: The Last City by Nina D'Aleo'(open to all)
Other bookish stuff:
Gail Carriger on her favourite SFF resources, podcasts and so on (contains bonus Tardis bookcase picture!)
Does txt msgng rly effct splling & grmr?'Children know that when you're in school, you do not use texting language, says linguist Susana Sotillo. It's up to the teacher to say it's not acceptable. Sotillo goes on to argue that language is always changing, and that whats needed is merely an awareness of when particular types of language should be used.
Hachette and Tor in a DRM war
An awesome way to store those huge folio-sized art books: books on wheels!'And if you cant get enough of bookshelves (if youre like me, you always need MORE! MORE BOOKSHELVES!), then check out these over here.
Knopf Doubleday dips its toe into the digital waters with a whole bunch of pre-release marketing stuff.''Whats interesting is the importance of getting in early with digital stuff, rather than waiting until a books release. Which is totally why Im putting together a dictionary of rhyming slang for my MG ;)
On a similar note, heres a post on book promotion/marketing.'The biggest mistake writers make in terms of marketing and publicity for their book is starting too late, says Rebecca Skloot.
Screw a plural you form: what'English really needs to bring back is the word overmorrow.
Its not just the book thats dead: magazines are dead, too!'Ultimately, it doesn't matter what you put on the cover of your magazine if no one will look at you. A few weeks ago, I was in a busy doctor's office with a dozen otherseveryone else was busy reading ' their phones.
An interview with Richard Wilbur:'I do envy people who can compose on the typewriter, though I reject as preposterous Charles Olsons ideas about the relation of the typewriter to poetic form.
The worlds wealthiest authors.
The worlds wealthiest authors. I am not on this list.
Author Cressida Cowell talks How To Train Your Dragon sequels'In fact, the primary reason behind the liberties taken by the first film with the source material ' which themselves didn't manifest until the fifth year of production ' was that DreamWorks knew they would have to condense the full complement of 12 books, and didn't want to wait six instalments to finally get Hiccup into the air.
Boundless is a new open access textbook company offering personalised OA textbooks for students. Way better than the hundred dollar textbooks I barely cracked at uni (honestly, who reads textbooks? Its all about the readings handbook). And while were on a digital kick, how about this submissions manager?
Booktopia wants your help in putting together an awesome bookish dinner party guest list.'Who would you invite? Bear in mind that if youre after value for money, you want noisy, brawling types, not introverted off-with-the-fairies types.
Yay, a new app called TOS;DR will help condense and rate the website terms of service we never, ever read. (BTW, by reading this post, youve agreed to send me chocolate and coffee.)
Are you a Melburnian who likes to talk books? Consider contributing to the Yarn podcast (yarn as in stories, not knitting)
Kiersten White interviews Michelle Gagnon at Comicon:
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