I tell you, hypothetical reader, I’m in an especially good mood this morning. It’s Friday, it’s Jeans Day at the office, I’m getting tons of great feedback on The Counterfeit Emperor, and this blog’s readership seems to be steadily growing. Oh, and a good friend lent me some Green Lantern comics, which I’m halfway through devouring already. (Metaphorically – he hopes.)
On to the links!
First we have nine wicked sweet book covers for your perusal. I think We Are The Friction is my favorite.
Now hear this: the 30 harshest author-on-author insults in history. Mark Twain says of Jane Austen: “Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.” Meanwhile Nabokov’s hating on everybody, even though Nabokov is a little punk. You can quote me on that.
Continuing with what is apparently our theme of Article Titles With Numbers, here’s the illustrious Chuck Wendig with 25 Things You Should Know About Writing A Novel. (Not that I know anybody doing that.) Says Chuck: “Your first and most important goal is to finish the shit that you started.” Amen, Wendig.
And finally, it occurs to me that there are a lot of awesome things on the Internet that I fail to share just because I assume everyone’s seen them already. And that’s sort of sad, isn’t it? So here: if for some reason you’ve never seen the Discovery Channel Boom-De-Yada commercial, click it now. The phrase “made of awesome” was made for that. You may say: Brian, that’s not related to writing. I say: Oh yes it is.
That’s all, friends and neighbors. Have a phenomenal weekend.
Brian D. Buckley 
I found the author insults fascinating. Shows how much subjectivity comes to play when reading, where even the greatest works have their detractors. Even so, I suppose pure shit remains just that, no matter the reader.
Yeah, you can never be so good that everyone loves you – it’s just not possible. Even Shakespeare got no love from Tolstoy.