Byrt’s weekly ramble through the blogosphere
BLOG SMART –>
– Is there an unconscious gender bias in the literary world? Meghan O’Rourke discusses at Slate
– Neil Gaiman is one of the many celebrities taking part in TwitChange
TwitChange is a celebrity Twitter auction (you can bid for celebrities to mention/retweet/follow you on Twitter) raising money for atHomeinHaiti.org, a charity that builds permanent housing for Haitian orphans
Neil’s Mega-package also includes a phone call from Neil, who will read you a poem or short story – you can bid here
(Other author-ish celebrities taking part – Stephen Fry, Nathan Fillion and Levar Burton)
– China Mieville responds to James Cameron’s Piranha 3D rant:
James Cameron said:
[Piranha 3D] is exactly an example of what we should not be doing in 3D. Because it just cheapens the medium …
China’s response:
Purveyor of Blue Pocahontas in the Skyrealms of Jorune is right. Won’t somebody please think of the dignity of highly profitable commodities?
Nothing so sullies haute kitsch as low camp.
<–AUTHOR TALK
– Rhys Bowen shares Royal tea recipes
– Mercedes Lackey blogs about the music she writes to
– Janet Evanovich talks Wicked Appetite
– Stacia Kane discusses her Downside seres
– Cassandra Clare is holding a Q&A session at Goodreads, starting Sept 18
WEB READS–>
– Bitter Grounds by Neil Gaiman (originally from Nalo Hopkinson’s Mojo: Conjure Stories, and later in Fragile Things)
– Fare Thee Well by Cathy Clamp
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