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I don’t spend nearly enough time on Cracked.com.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-science-fiction-needs-to-bring-back/?goback=.gde_88594_member_148306345
Richard Wright, author of “Thy Fearful Symmetry”, tells us why he’s not going to play the “Pimp the bejesus out of your book on social media” game.
http://www.richardwright.org/2012/08/its-the-book-stupid/
I’m a multi-tasking all-the-timer. What type of book reader are you?
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/what-kind-book-reader-are-you-diagnostics-guide/56337/
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/many-more-types-book-readers-diagnostics-addendum/56425/
Namib fairy circles
Pierre Mare explains why a little mystery is good for us.
http://pierremare.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-truth-is-out-there-and-its-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/dSvRl+%28Pierre%27s+Blog%29
There’s been a lot of controversy since…oh, around the time Amazon was invented about the dubious ethics of purchasing book reviews or sending out your minions to trash another author’s book. Here’s a little laugh-out-loud satire of “those” kinds of services, courtesy of Richard Salter.
http://www.richardsalter.com/2012/08/book-reviews-for-sale/
