Penn Jillette

If Neil Gaiman asks it, how can I, as a semi-regular blogger who admires the truly regular bloggers who still manage to write published materials, refuse?

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2007/02/and-in-time-it-took-to-say-that-neil.html

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Also, since I roughly announced this in a comment on eyezofwolf's blog, Regaining Home is scheduled for release at GenCon.

Also on the Ramlar front, Allies and Adversaries, to which I contributed, will be released sometime this month. It also features work by Lydia Laurenson, one of the authors of the Scroll of the Monk supplement for White Wolf's Exalted and an old friend of mine.

(Lydia, if you're reading this--I'm going back to Greece and Turkey! I shall think of you in sunny plazas with warmly flowing fountains, as I remember your being fond of one in particular, but don't remember where it was.)

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Pop quiz for the readership (limited though I'm sure it still is): shall I make an effort to post the Greece and Turkey adventures when I'm abroad this May/June? They'll likely have nothing to do with writing (as the study tour for which I'm serving as a TA is a mythology tour rather than a creative writing tour). As I recall, internet cafes were rather scarce, but if people are interested, I'll make the effort.

Pandemonium and Peter S. Beagle

First:
Pandemonium Books, an amazing game and bookstore in Cambridge, MA, is in serious danger of going out of business--but they have a plan! It involves t-shirts, people buying t-shirts, and needing 1000 people to care. These are folks who support local authors, allow gamers space in their basement, host regular author events, and are expanding their teen fiction section (which already features Holly Black, and, if they followed up on the recommendation I gave them last month, will also be carrying Jennifer Lynn Barnes very shortly).

I don't beg for people to support indie bookstores just because they're indies. (People who know my love for Barnes and Noble can attest to that, and I always figure folks should shop where they're the most comfortable and content shopping.) I only make a call out for support when the store is truly special. Pandemonium is that. The full post is at pandemonium_bks--today's entry.

Second:
I just found out from mistborn that Peter S. Beagle, writer of The Last Unicorn, didn't make nearly the money he was supposed to on the movie of the same title. His publisher is selling autographed copies of the new DVD here; these are the only sold DVDs that Beagle will get any money from. It's worth reading the site to get an idea of the whole situation.

Amie Rose Rotruck writes the most wonderful haiku reviews, and since I wanted to talk about Peter Beagle's Last Unicorn, I thought I'd link to it here.