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Congrats to Joder, who won Collusion (Diversion #2) by Eden Winters! Collusion will be released on February 24 by Amber Quill Press.

Congrats to Urbanista, who won Take It Off (Market Garden #2) by L.A. Witt and Aleksandr Voinov! Take It Off will be released February 25 by Riptide Publishing.

Congrats to Irene, who won Something in the Way He Needs (Family #1) by Cardeno C! Something in the Way He Needs will be released on February 25 by Dreamspinner Press.

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Contests

• Well Read is giving away a Josephine Myles backlist ebook. Not exactly sure when it closes.

• Eden Winters is giving away two ebook copies of Collusion (Diversion #2) and signed copies of Diversion and Collusion. Closes February 24.

• Kay Berrisford is giving away an ebook copy of Revelations by Julie Lynn Hayes. Closes February 25.

Bookity

• New releases and more: Literary Escapism (UF/PNR) and Fiction Vixen (romances).

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• “Arthur Conan Doyle Estate now being sued to settle whether Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain”.

• A bit more about Bookish.

• Sloan Parker on “the essence and passion of a story”.

• Angela Benedetti shares her thoughts on serials at Cryselle’s Bookshelf.

• VacuousMinx on the far-reaching impact of that famous Twlight fanfic book.

• Kassa’s curious about what’s the right amount of time between books in a series.

• Check out Tam’s post about words she thinks need to be used more often.

• “Stop apologizing for what you like to read”. (via mental_floss)

• “A brief history of the typewriter”.

• Direwolf bookends. (via The Mary Sue)

• Eight new punctuation marks… (Thanks, Bron!)

Ebookity

• The basics of how reselling ebooks might work (and why it’s not automatically illegal).

• Some independent booksellers are suing Amazon and it’s in part due to the popularity of the Kindle format and DRM.

• Dear Author on the impact of the price fixing settlement.

• Go download a free ebook of short stories by Neil Gaiman.

• Easily browse the Kindle Lending Library at Amazon.

• Project Gutenberg now has Dropbox synching.

Think, Make, Do, Learn

• History of cup holders in cars. (via Consumerist) (I remember being really annoyed at Ford’s early cup holders because they were about an inch deep and anything you put in them was guaranteed to tip over and spill.)

• What 200 calories looks like. (via The Kitchn)

• Was red really the most dangerous shirt color in the original Star Trek series?

• “How much would the sea level fall if every ship were removed all at once from the Earth’s waters?”

• Can you watch 90 seconds of interspecies yawns without yawning?

Cookity

• Noodle soups.

• 6 polenta recipes.

• 10 skillet meals.

• Parsley peppercorn beef patties. (via The Kitchn)

• Bacon and Brussels sprout salad. (via The Kitchn)

• Tuna melts with olive oil mayo and Parmesan.

• Chickpea bruschetta. (via The Kitchn)

• Southwestern tofu scramble.

• Three-ingredient energy bars.

• Mini Samoa baked donuts. (via The Kitchn)

• Hot chocolate cupcakes. (via The Kitchn)

Drinkity

• Birch leaf cocktail. (via The Kitchn)

• Meyer lemon margaritas. (via CRAFT)

Crafty

• Convert a utility bucket into an ottoman. (via CRAFT)

• “Adventures in mathematical knitting”. (via knittyBlog)

• Snake cozy…

• Sew an “Oh, the places you’ll go!” wallhanging. (via CRAFT)

Cool

• Caffeinate! Knit a Dalek press style coffee maker cozy. (via The Mary Sue)

• Procrastinate!

• TARDIS mosaic lantern.

• Doctor Who breakfast cereals.

• Official BBC Doctor Who anniversary jewelry.

• Star Wars web series about the Death Star’s PR department.

• Amazing and fun photographs of kids.

• LEGO loom.

• Princess Nyan Cat.

• “Great moments in NHL kisses”.

Cool or Wha…?

• 20 geeky baby toys.

• Rancho Obi-Wan. (via Gizmodo)

• Gandalf and Saruman salt and pepper shakers.

• Very short Oreogami video.

• David Bowie dolls.

• Mona Lisa from spools of thread.

Wha…?

• Would this annoying alarm clock survive more than a night at your house?

• The USPS is launching a line of clothing.

• Lazy Boy rowing machine.

• “148 years later, Mississippi ratifies amendment banning slavery”… (via ExperimentBL626)

LOL

• How to deal with negativity… (Hover your cursor above the comic for additional text.)

• My complaint about apps and a lot of mobile versions of websites. (Again with the hovering.)

• Craigslist missed connections map of the US…

• Autocorrected Presidential quotations. Special US autocorrects in honor of President’s Day.

• Star Trek bloopers.

• I disagree with the tea proportion. Chocolate instead. And I’d have to substitute “meowing like dementors have gotten to him” instead of “peeing”…

• Cats have been pesky throughout the ages.

• Cat decision making.

• I’m not sure the photographer has long to live…

Teh Cute

• Lioness and babies (thanks, Brigitte)! Baby falcon! First ever footage of wee baby tigers in the wild (via Gizmodo)! Kittens! Baby otter! Cat! Baby jaguar! Baby clouded leopards! Baby quokka! Kitten! Baby jaguars! Polar bear and baby! Baby tigers! Kitten! Baby black panther!

Reading Update
Natural Selection by minor_hue. free online. Good short Merlin-Arthur fanfic in which Arthur’s friends think he should settle down and set him up on a series of horrific blind dates, the only good part of which is waiter Merlin.
Crazy (Natural Selection #2) by minor_hue. free online. Steamy short epilogue to Natural Selection.

Please note that the below are not hockey fanfics…
I’m Every Goalie (In the Crease #0.5) by Carter Quinn. free online. Ok short about a goalie and a d-man on opposing teams who get together every chance they have.
In the Crease (In the Crease #1) by Carter Quinn. free online. Ok short set two years later than I’m Every Goalie. The goalie and the d-man are now playing on the same team, but…
Puck You (Puck You #1) by Elizabeth Jewell. ebook short. Ok short m/m PWP between two fictitious NHL players from opposing teams.
Puck You, Two (Puck You #2) by Elizabeth Jewell. ebook short. So-so short m/m PWP between the guys from the first book.
Puckin’ Right (Puck You #3) by Elizabeth Jewell. ebook short. So-so short m/m PWP in which the two hockey players are now on the same team.
Outta My Crease (Puck You #4) by Elizabeth Jewell. ebook short. Meh short m/m PWP in which the new goalie throws a twist into things.

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