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Congrats to Gina G, who won The Luckiest (Lucky Moon #2) (2nd ed) by Piper Vaughn and M.J. O’Shea! The Luckiest will be released by Dreamspinner Press on September 8.

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Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of Dark Aemilia by Sally O’Reilly. Closes September 8.

• Blodeuedd’s also giving away a copy of A Winter Wedding by Amanda Forester. Make sure you read how to enter! Contest closes September 14. US & Canada.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance) and Tor.com (PNR)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• Becky Black wonders if it’s time to change the advice on plagiarism.

• Words that came from the Simpsons.

• A previously unpublished chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

• Bookcase assembly animation.

• Bookshelf pocket watch.

• 16 things romance readers are tired of hearing.

• Too true.

Do, Think, Make, Learn

• Chuck Wendig on nude photo theft. (via dduane)

• How to lock down Facebook privacy.

• US map linked to 170,000 photos from the Depression.

• Interactive map of the world linked to photos tweeted by astronauts in space.

• 16 unusual September holidays.

• What if you had all the physical money in the world?

• Good to remember.

• 15 quotes about coffee.

• Watch crayons being made.

Cookity

• S’mores ice cream cake.

• Caramel-pear upside down cake.

• Peanut butter caramel baked apples. (via blue–spruce)

• 15 peanut butter recipes.

• Potato and green chile stew.

• Two-pea pesto chicken salad.

• Fried cauliflower rice.

Gluten Free

• Cornmeal almond berry sheet cake.

• Frozen strawberry lemonade pie.

• Peanut butter and jelly cookies.

• Butterscotch pudding.

• Glazed lemon zucchini bread.

• Pizza pot pies.

• Quinoa and corn salad with honey-lime dressing. (via The Kitchn)

Crafty

• New and upcoming knitting books.

• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Black cat and black panther.

• Tilt-shift photo of Spoonbridge and Cherry.

• Starfield projector light. (Reasonably priced, some assembly required.)

• Amazing space sheet sets and duvets. (via The Mary Sue)

• Geeky jewelry.

• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Make a mini-grappling gun from junk in your office.

Wha…?

• Remote control cooler.

• Hockey stick rake.

• “130 mph leaf blower“.

• “Pumpkin spice watch” from Consumerist, to keep you up-to-date on all the new pumpkin spice products.

• Thanksgiving cards.

• Apparently where all the missing socks go.

• “London water officials battle massive fatberg the length of a 747 blocking the sewer“.

• The Golden Arches fell and squished some cars going through the drive-thru…

LOL

• August’s 21 best autocorrects.

• The pumpkin spice must flow!

• Twitter reactions to Sidney Crosby not being arrested in Ottawa earlier in the week.

• Spider-man. (Hover cursor for additional text.)

• Something wrong with that mirror… (Thanks, JessC!)

• Hiding FAIL.

• Graceful FAIL.

• So true.

Teh Cute

• Kittens! Tiger! Tiger and baby! Kittens! Kitten! Cat and kittens! Kitten! Koala!

Reading Update (brace yourselves for actual non-hockey related reviewettes!)
Welcome to Bordertown (Borderland #5), edited by Holly Black, Ellen Kushner, and Terri Windling. ebook. For me, urban fantasy is fantasy set in, duh, urban areas, in cities. Frequently the location is as much a character as it a setting. The stories are infused with hints of faerie and myth, both European and Native American, and when you finish reading, you can almost glimpse the fantastical out of the corner of your eye. The Borderland anthologies were among the earliest urban fantasy, about the mythical Bordertown that existed on the cusp of this world and the Faerie Realm. Revisiting Bordertown in this anthology after so much time (the most recent anthology was published in 1998) was a delightful trip, the chance to check in on old friends and make new ones. The list of contributors is impressive and includes Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, Patricia A. McKillip, Emma Bull, and Cory Doctorow. (You can see the full list of contributors and read a few of the stories here.) Highly recommended.
Weezie Bat (Weezie Bat #1) by Francesca Lia Block. ebook. I don’t even know how to review this odd YA novel about Weezie Bat and her guy, and her best friend Dirk and his guy, living together in a cottage in LA. It had elements of urban fantasy and magical realism and the repetitively simple sentence structure drove me crazy, yet I read the whole thing.
Seven Wild Sisters: A Modern Fairy Tale by Charles de Lint, illustrated by Charles Vess. ebook. Very good ya illustrated contemporary fantasy about seven red-haired sisters living with their mother in the hills, most likely somewhere in the Ozarks. Things get a little messy when the middle sister manages to run afoul of the fairy folk. I originally read this in Tapping the Dream Tree many years ago.

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*purple sun stupor* -Chaos