Thanks to all of you who linked and/or read my post about goodness and badness in sf/f book covers. The success of that post has led me to add a new monthly feature to Nethermore. Right now I’ll be calling it “Judging Books By Their Covers,” but if any of you have a better, less-generic title, by all means, drop me an email or a comment.

In connection with that, I’m working with a few publishers to get complete lists of their upcoming books, along with pictures of the cover flats. If anyone has contacts at publishers where I can get this information, please let me know.

The words of the day is: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is the fear of long words. Check out phobialist.com for some more hilarious and irrational fears. One of my favorites is Lutraphobia—the fear of otters.

In other news, I was linked over at Brandon Sanderson’s website, but not for anything art or science fiction related. I said a few things last night that are being taken completely out of context. They’re kind of funny. So go on over and take a look at the weird things I say but don’t necessarily mean.