Linking, Not Necessarily Sorted

Woke up today with thicker skin. Weird; hope it lasts.

Things to spend your money on:

Today is the last day of the Strange Horizons Fund Drive!

Wheatland Press is having a sale!

My friend Hayden Childs has a book out about the seminal Richard and Linda Thompson album Shoot Out the Lights!

Best Buy has Fox TV DVD sets on sale for $16.99 this week!

Other things of note:

Elephants, hiding. Via Kristin.

jimhines on . . . well . . . marriage. Sort of.

Finally, James A. Owen (AKA coppervale of Here, There Be Dragons and other awesomeness, is running a contest for folks who blog about Superpowers or Kerry Madden's book Jessie's Mountain. The prizes are pretty incredible; I wish I could enter for promoting my own book!

Me At ReaderCon and Odyssey Bookshop

Because it deserves its own post: I am, after much deliberation and obsessing over travel expenses, headed to ReaderCon this year. Yay! Won't be staying at the hotel, but nearby, and I hope to see many of you New Englanders (and others) there.

In addition, as those of you who get the Small Beer Newsletter may have already seen, I'm going to be doing a reading in the area:

7/22, 7 PM: John Kessel and David J. Schwartz (Superpowers) read at the Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA

No idea where South Hadley is in relation to, well, anywhere, but I hope to see some of y'all there as well.

Reading at Common Good Books: Reminder

I keep forgetting to plug this, but: I'll be reading from Superpowers this Thursday, July 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Common Good Books, 165 Western Ave North, Suite 14 in St. Paul. Bring a friend!

Also, if you want to keep track of events like this, I always post about them on the Facebook group for Superpowers. I have told y'all I'm on Facebook, right? Right over here. I find it so very soothing compared to MySpace.

Huh.

Funny. I wrote the quiz and the book, and this answer still surprises me.

The Superpowers Personality Test created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Jack Robinson You scored as JACK. Your power is SUPER-SPEED. You get a kick out of catching bad guys and dodging raindrops, but you're starting to realize that there are some problems that can't be solved quickly, and some things you can't outrun. Find out more about Jack by reading SUPERPOWERS by David J. Schwartz, available now in the US and the UK! Jack Robinson 63% Mary Beth Layton 50% Harriet Bishop 38% Ray Bishop 25% Caroline Bloom 25% Charlie Frost 25% Marcus Hatch 13%