Just for Fun

If you never guessed reorganizing a bookshelf could be an art/music event, you need to watch this short video. Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFnuP9niRUg&feature=player_embedded

And who can resist pictures of baby wild animals:
http://www.livescience.com/12902-world-cutest-baby-wild-animals.html

Promoting or Reading

Whether you’re looking for reviews to find a good book or looking for places to request a review of your novel, this list of review sites for speculative fiction should prove useful:
http://www.graspingforthewind.com/reviewer-list/

Publishing

The latest publishing success is Amanda Hocking who is self-published. In this blog, she speaks out about the misconceptions brewing on the Internet about what that means for publishing, for success, and for new authors in a clear, detailed account:
http://amandahocking.blogspot.com/2011/03/some-things-that-need-to-be-said.html

Research

Juliette Wade linked me to this site, a wonderful resource for playing with how your characters sound, first in your head, then in translation on the page. It contains audio clips of native speakers along with the script they read in English and their own language.
http://accent.gmu.edu/index.php

And here’s another from Juliette that focuses on North America:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap5Right

Writing

More from Juliette Wade, this time something of her own. A look at transitions, how to construct them and what choices can be made based on her own editing:
http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/transitions-linking-forward-through.html