Saturday Miscellany—9/11/21

I feel a little weird posting this today, but maybe some of you will want a break from all the anniversary coverage. And if you don’t? Well, this will be here later.

that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
The Book Biz Tries to Avoid Supply Chain Disruptions—this is only going to get worse for a while…
Publishers, Amazon Move to Dismiss Booksellers’ Antitrust Suit
The third Lily Wong novel comes out next week, so Tori Eldridge is getting a little publicity going, for example:
Tori Eldridge: Going to Hong Kong—how a recent trip inspired the setting for the third novel.
Things Get Personal for Lily Wong—a good interview with Eldridge
Michael Connelly Can’t Stop Chasing Leads—a niece piece on the master
Richard Osman: ‘No one’s born a crime writer. I write crime because I read it’—an interview with the man behind The Thursday Murder Club (and several other things)
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Nick Rennison on the early days of American detective fiction and the sleuths who competed with Sherlock Holmes for mystery readers.—I’d maybe heard of one of these before, but I think I’m conflating him with someone else (and later). I’m willing to bet most of you would say something similar, which says something about how the rivalries went.
This One’s Too Large, This One’s Too Small: Is There a Perfect Shape for Books?—I really feel like I’m starting to mention too many Molly Templeton pieces lately. But I really don’t see myself stopping. This is one of those things I wish I’d written.
The Best 4 Apps to Keep Track of the Books You Own—huh. Have you heard of any of these? Used one?
What determines reading speed?—I don’t remember seeing this one on Paul’s Picks (and I thought I’d at least glanced at everything there), so I’m glad it was spotlighted this week by The Write Reads.
The D&D Connection: Authors and TTRPGs- What You May Have Missed—I talked about this series last week, here’s a nice wrap-up post with the links to them all.
The NetGalley Shelf app – Grrrrrrr—I suspected NetGalley’s app wouldn’t be that great, Fictionophile kindly confirmed that.

Episode (or two) you might want to give a listen to:
Blood Brothers Episode 66 with Janice Hallet and Miranda Jewess—a fun discussion with the author of The Appeal (a book I’m really looking forward to being available over here) and her publisher.

That I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
Robert B. Parker’s Stone’s Throw by Mike Lupica—Jesse Stone returns in a sold entry for the series, I talked about it recently.
The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes—One of the more pleasant surprises of 2020 to me was how much I enjoyed The Inheritance Games, I’m excited to see how this sequel carries on.
Miss Kopp Investigates by soandso—The Seventh Kopp Sisters novel finds them post-WWI and me two behind.