Reading recs

My story "Bluebeard by the Sea," which appeared in Talebones last year, got an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighteenth Annual Collection. I'm delighted.

Recommended blogging: Joe Konrath on book tour hell. I've toured his web site before and found great stuff there re agents and persisting in the face of writing adversity. His mystery hardcover Whiskey Sour has sold about 15,000 copies.

Recommended reading: A Wedding Toast by Katie Holmes's Former Best Friend by Jay Dyckman at McSweeney's (funny and biting) and Neils Bohr and the Sleeping Dane by Jonathan Sullivan at Strange Horizons. History and mysticism and interpersonal conflict, all good stuff.