Tony Hillerman, author of numerous titles featuring Native American detectives, died yesterday at the age of 83.
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Hey folks, I know everyone’s probably sick of seeing pre-NaNoWriMo blather from we WriMos, and that’s too bad, because I imagine there is going to be a lot more of it in the next week. And then there’s all the NaNo and post-NaNo blather…
Nevertheless, I’ve got a NaNoBlog update for those that are interested. Fellow WriMos can join the site using their NaNo (or real) names and be entered to win a pack of prize NaNo-ish prize items at the end of the competition. I may even build up a …

Michele Lee has a solid bit of common sense up at her blog. It seems people somewhere are debating boycotting Borders for not stocking certain titles. She suggests Amazon, or special-ordering. I agree.
I have never personally dealt with Borders. I don’t think we have that up here, but we do have Chapters/Indigo and McNally Robinson, etc. Not to mention the occasional small business bookstore… (I desperately miss our local. Desperately.) However, they’re big-box bookers with staff that are trained to type orders into computers. Yes, that means buyers will have …

Today at Storytellers Unplugged, it is Brian Knight’s turn at the post. I like his posts (At SU and elsewhere…). He’s got that look in his eye that just says “You’ve been pwnd. You don’t know it yet, but you have. And I did it.”
Anyway, here ya go – the link: http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/jack-with-the-hat
I will make a normal post eventually. I’m just in my pre-NaNo funk.

Which Jhonen Vaquez character are you? By EmReznor.

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Nearly a decade ago, I discovered a neat little site with lots of great little groups made up of people that sent messages back and forth to each other via a single email address. I immediately signed up to about fifty different OneList groups, mostly pagan, some writing, some fan-based and a couple of ‘play by email’ rpgs.
OneList merged with eGroups, but the beat went on. Half the lists disappeared, others died of their own accord and I was left with fifteen or so. Yahoo bought out eGroups, and the …