My wife and I are heading to Colorado for a week, meaning no new posts and no replies to comments till Monday, September 26. I trust y’all will manage without me somehow. It’ll be hard, I’m sure, but slog through that Buckley-less wilderness the best you can; it’ll build character in the end.
In the meantime, Friday Links!
First, I got some good answers to my question yesterday about why people like zombies. So if you’re interested, go check it out and find out how smart y’all are.
Next up: as a prize for winning her short story contest, Agent Courtney critiques my query letter. Righteous! (And the contest-winning story is here, if you’re into that sort of thing.)
We now move on from the Flagrant Self-Promotion portion of our post…
Writing Links
GalleyCat reports that some companies are using computer-generated stories to avoid paying the astronomical salaries writers normally command. *snort* This is interesting, but until A.I. improves dramatically, I don’t see it as much of a threat. (And if A.I. does improve dramatically, we’ll have bigger and more interesting problems anyway.)
Post-revolution, what’s the literary scene looking like in Egypt? The New York Times is on it. (Update: weird, it’s asking for a login now. It wasn’t doing that ten minutes ago. Not sure what’s going on.)
People everywhere are reading less, and everyone’s worried about the future of publishing. This photo captures the sadness and the fear.
NaNoWriMo is for wusses. Anyone can write a novel in 30 days. How about writing a novel in 3 days?
NEW TRAILER FOR THE MUPPETS MOVIE. Prodigious! (And yes, it’s book-related…you’ll see.)
Non-Writing Links
If My Little Ponies were superheroes. Disturbing and fascinating in equal measure.
There are two types of people in this world: people who like Star Trek and people who don’t. The latter group can move along. For the former group: this. Click through all fourteen comics for utterly inexplicable goodness.
I’m fleeing the state, you’re fleeing the blog, we’ll meet back here in a week. Everyone remember where we parked. Y’all have fun, now. Bye!
Brian D. Buckley 
Have a great vacay!
Any vacation that involves elk bugling is certain to be a good time. 🙂