monday hangovers

Tired, sleepy, all that. There were possibly gunshots up the street earlier. Or maybe leftover fireworks. Very exciting. A few things anyway:

Practical writing-avoidance avoidance technique plug at Bay Area Word of Mouth, coming just after an account of what sounds like a meeting of a most fabulous write club. (Via Ghost Word blog, not Ghost blog -- big difference.)

Carrie gets patrigoogled by Old Man Sittenfeld! And then it's mentioned in the Atlantic Monthly! All very exciting--and proof that anyone who you write about on your blog's dad will find out about it.

A Blottered poster links to Ted Richardson's fraud blog.

You heard it from Rebecca Skloot: Showers will kill you.

Only two more shipping days until Mr. Barzak's birthday!

Christopher just finished Lord Byron's Novel and loved it. Go over to his site and harangue him in the comments until he tells you how much.