- And on the subject of prompts! KJ Bishop is putting together a short story anthology, and is asking for story prompts over on her blog. If she writes a story based on your prompt and it makes it into the book, she'll send you a free copy, signed and personalized.

- It would be nice if I could make it off the couch for longer than five minutes at a time. I am so. tired. (For absolutely no reason, as usual.)

I have been extra-lame about replying to comments and such-like recently (granted, I usually maintain a baseline level of lame), so apologies if I've inadvertently ignored you.

- Wow, what a douchebag. (Warning: Homophobic crazy-pants frothing at the mouth behind that link.) Now there's a writer I can guarantee I'll never read. eta: Read Jeff Vandermeer's hilarious comments on the subject. (Gave me a chuckle, anyway.)