Odds n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
bullet Indie Presses Have to Partner Up—Indie Presses (as well as Indie Booksellers) have got to look for ways to survive, this Op-Ed from Publishers Weekly has some good ideas.
bullet Upcoming Book Shortage and How to Help
bullet The digital death of collecting—not strictly about books, etc. But close enough…
bullet Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child says children’s books should be taken seriously—I admit, I don’t do as good of a job on this front as I think I should (definitely not as Child thinks I should), but I don’t think she’s wrong.
bullet Up Close: Lee Matthew Goldberg—A nice feature on Goldberg, with a focus on his latest, Stalker Stalked.
bullet From Pen Stroke to Key Stroke: On Slander in Suspense—how some crime writers are approaching a world in which “All crime is cyber crime”—at least a bit.
bullet Celebrating the Librarians of SFF—sure, the list is missing a few. But it’s got a lot of good ones.
bullet The Libraries of Who We Are—once again, Templeton knocks it out of the park (a good companion read to the earlier essay about collecting)
bullet Ace Atkins asked authors to post ugly covers to their books a couple of days ago, and got some truly bizarre results.
bullet 5 Benefits of Listening to Audiobooks!
bullet The Benefit of Glossaries in Fantasy Novels!—I must be reading the wrong fantasy books, because i’d love this feature…
bullet I’m a Reader, Get Me Out of My Reading Slump!—a miserable experience, for sure. But sounds like Lois is finding a positive takeaway.

This Week's New Releases That I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
bullet Teen Titans: Beast Boy Loves Raven by Kami Garcia, Gabriel Picolo—the third in this series of reworked origins brings the two together in their search for answers.
bullet Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark—A black HRD detective investigates the murder of a black LAPD Academy student to kick off a promising looking series.

Lastly I’d like to say hi and extend a warm welcome to davidlonan1 and //Anannya// (I love the tag line for her blog, “One Stop for Your TBR Extension”) who followed the blog this week. Don’t be a stranger!