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Sunday Post

Here's this week's wrap up, kids...wherein I go through my Twitter and Facebook feeds to see what the hell I linked to that was nifty.

* A letter to those writers who, upon rejection, say "You will regret this!" And this is totally true. Even if a book goes on to be a best seller, that doesn't mean the agent (or editor) who rejected it will regret their decision. If you're going to be spending hundreds of hours of your time to represent a book (or thousands of dollars, if you're a publisher), you must love it. Rejecting a book doesn't necessarily mean the book is bad or won't sell elsewhere--it often means that the people just didn't love it enough. But your goal as a writer is to find people who will love your work, and if you put the time and effort into honing your craft--and do your research--eventually you'll find someone who loves it.

* A positive review of River posted at Blogcritics.

* Ten Things Read in Jennifer Love Hewitt's Book That Are Not Hallucinations. Quite possibly the greatest book review ever.

* Alien vs Pooh. (And for the record, there's some Predator in there too.)

* Maternal death and c-sections are on the rise in the US. Which is very scary. And related, an older article I only recently read: a Canadian study suggests home births with midwives are as safe as hospital births.

* No link, but we hired my minion to be official company minion at Mundania Press. Well, okay, so she's the "Executive Assistant." But I still call her the minion. She'll be taking care of all correspondence. I trained her for a few hours Friday, got her email set up, boss made the announcement...and everyone promptly welcomed her by sending a few dozen questions within hours. Poor, poor minion.

* I have a confession to make: I have a weakness for hidden object games. I can't help myself--every so often, I must play them. But I don't like a plain HOG, I like ones with mini-games and logic. Which is why I really enjoyed Natalie Brooks: Mystery at Hillcrest High. Now, this isn't high art. It's a silly game. But it was fun, so I'm rec'ing it.

* A wonderful song: "In Which Buffy Slays Edward".

We've all been having a vampire issue
This one can cause some damage even if he doesn't bite you
But it appears that Bella, once again, needs to be rescued
'Cause Edward Cullen
Gives me the wiggins
So Buffy, can you please just slay him?

Made of WIN.

Look: No Ranting!

When life gets you down, it's important to have a zen place. YouTube is a good place to find some zen. And some things that make you twitch, but try to avoid those ones. The surprised kitten video? Zen. Fan made trailer with photoshopped actors in a Thundercats movie? Zen.

Fucking epic Buffy trailer? ZEN WIN.

A little known fact about me is that I'm a total vidding nerd. Like, I spent four years making Buffy, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy X-2, and Veronica Mars vids. I even remember the old buffyvids.com site and used to find and download them all the time. But the one embedded above is lovely--mad, mad skillz.

Zen.

Buffy vs. Edward

I couldn't embed the video here 'cause it messed up my layout, so head here: http://blip.tv/file/2261825/ to see the brilliant video of Twilight remixed with Buffy.

Just for the record, I *would* watch Twilight if Buffy was in it. Otherwise, please don't tell me I need to see it because I like vampires. Yes, I like vampire stories, but not when the vamps fucking sparkle, and not when they attempt to normalize misogyny and dysfunctional relationships for teenagers. And before you bring it up, yes, I write some pretty fucking dysfunctional relationships, but a) my target market isn't teen girls whose brains aren't fully formed yet and are influenced by this shit, b) I never pretend they're NOT dysfunctional and messed up, and c) my heroines don't throw themselves off of cliffs because their boyfriends don't like them anymore. Please go read the Cracked article on the subject and stop talking to me about fucking Twilight.