+ Buy a book! (Help me keep my publishing job!)

+ Speaking of publishing, romance ebook publishers seem to be taking over (or at least wanting to take over) the dead tree market. I’m interested in ebooks both as a consumer and a… producer? Ebooks are less expensive to produce, and I think they will become more prevalent when the cost of ebook readers goes down, but in the short term, ebooks of popular titles are available, as are a lot of interesting alternative books that might not get picked up by traditional publishers. (This is particularly true of GLBT romances, and some ebook-only publishers are putting out some good, genre-bending romances.)

+ Also, Writer Beware has a good, brief summary of last week’s industry bloodshed.

+ Check out the Brooklyn Hall of Fame.

+ Interesting Times article about art and artists in Green-wood Cemetery. (See also my trip to Green-wood.)

+ Problematic Barbies.

The publishing industry is busy eating itself (major layoffs at Random House, Simon and Schuster, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today) but I have links!

+ Women are earning combat awards but still no respect in the military.

+ Check out this knit motorcycle cozy.

+ The first LOLcat.

+ The Life Magazine photo archive is now online and there’s lots of good stuff here.

+ There’s an interesting profile of mystery writer Patricia Cornwell in USA Today in which she talks about the Kay Scarpetta series and her 2006 marriage to a woman.

+ Prop 8: The Musical! (Funny, but too little, too late, no? Where were these guys two months ago?)