Research, appointments and various other unimportant things will keep me away for much of today. But it's probably a good time to remind one and all that I'm still holding the fort (and then some) over at Galleycat, where today's offerings include a nice dump of data about where books are set, how they are priced and what format dominates, as well as the announcement that Keith Ablow's getting his own talk show. I know I probably have no basis for thinking this, but it just strikes me as very, very odd.
Also, for those like me who are too damn lazy* to read blogs a la RSS, Graham Powell launches the wonderful Crimespot, which collates most every crime fiction-related blog into one page. It's the genre version of Metaxucafe, in other words.
And even though this was published a while back, this piece in the Berkleyan about one man's quest to catalog every Bay Area mystery is very cool.
And finally, it's a Conservative minority government, which is about what I expected.
*where lazy = tabbed browsing on Firefox, cached links and my ability to memorize URLs. Seriously.
Hah! The minute I saw that link regarding Berkeley, I knew who it must be. Randal Brandt, a reader and fan whom I met when I was helping the Monterey LCC folks on program. I figured he had to be someone whose name would be familiar. As a former bay area resident, and as somene who does a lot of west coast convention I figured his name would ring bells with folks who've been to recent conventions. I suspect lots of us will spend time over on that site.
This is SO cool; it's one of my favorite places and a great setting for mystery fiction.
Posted by: Andi | January 25, 2006 at 03:02 PM