writerly things:

• Fantasy Magazine

• Booklife

• Prime Books

• Standard Manuscript Format

• Scrivener (Switch to Mac! Switch to Scrivener!)

vegan love:

• Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe: for all your vegan shopping needs

• The Post Punk Kitchen: recipes, internet drama

• Herbivore Clothing Company: for shirts with such slogans as “Bacon had a Mom” and “Save a Horse, Ride a Vegan,” and other stuff like accessories, books, and the magazine featuring my first published non-fiction

• Farm Sanctuary: where you can donate to help animals rescued from factory farms

most excellent comrades and/or writers of note:

• Jesse Bullington: author of assorted fictions, wearer of some seriously grizzly mutton chops

• Jeff VanderMeer: one of the nicest people and awesome writers you could find

• Selena Chambers: writer, editrix, sister-in-spirit over being aghast at the anachronistic illustrations in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

• Orrin Grey: skeleton author, fellow Warhammer veteran

• John Glover: delightful weaver of tales, grammar enthusiast

• Tessa Kum: tea-lover, all-around badass

• Ekaterina Sedia: a talented writer/editrix I admired even before she chose my story for her werewolf anthology

the internet yields us luscious fruit, of the electronic, rather than the paper variety:

• Dinosaur Comics: which cannot be explained

• A Hawk and a Hacksaw: my favorite band

• Brad Neely: comic artist and genius behind Wizard People

• The Onion A.V. Club: for all your media-review needs, plus Savage Love

• Maru: adorables

• Tea and Chi: purveyors of fine teas

• Tea Tasting Blog: courtesy Maria over at Tea and Chi

• Hark, a vagrant: web comic with issues like “Dude Watchin’ with the Brontes”

• Gora Gora Orkestar: headline would read something like ‘Local Boulder Group Plays Balkan Music, Molly Appreciates This”

• The Widow’s Bane: the Devil’s house band. Listen to them, have your perception of zombie polka changed forever