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Congrats to Elsie and Jenn T, who won Home Work (Life Lessons #3) by Kaje Harper! Home Work is being released today by MLR Press.

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Contests

• Rarely Dusty Books is giving away $10 in Riptide Publishing store credit. Closes 11:59 pm, October 7.

• Joder’s giving away $10 in Riptide Publishing store credit, too. Closes 11:59 pm, October 7.

• The Armchair Reader’s giving away a choice from the backlists of JL Merrow and Josephine Myles, who stopped by to ponder whether real men knit. Closes October 8?

• Luisa Prieto’s giving away a copy of her book Written in Blood. Closes October 9.

• Tracy’s giving away a set of four paperback paranormal romances. Closed midnight PDT, October 18.

• Tracy’s also giving away a set of four paperback historical romances. Closes midnight PDT, October 19.

Bookity

• New releases and more: Literary Escapism (UF/PNR), Tor.com (PNR), Elisa Rolle (LGBT), and Rarely Dusty Books (m/m romance).

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• Book and library links from mental_floss.

• Writing links from Becky Black.

• Quotes from science fiction and fantasy writers about censorship and book banning.

• A comic for Banned Books Week.

• Neil Gaiman’s poem for National Poetry Day.

• Eden Winters on how responding to reviews can be a good thing.

• KZ Snow asked authors about maturity in m/m romance.

• 6 famous ghostwriters.

• Copyright registration basics for writers.

• Is there a Little Free Library near you? There’s one at the end of my block! 🙂

• Memorable proposal at the National Book Festival.

• Book mountain library.

• Better titles for banned books.

Ebookity

• Does an ereader or an octopus have the better tech?

• Free ebooks for Banned Books Week. (via TeleRead)

• A new study (with an extremely small sample size…) found that eink didn’t seem to be easier on the eyes than LCDs.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• In the future, there might be no nearsightedness.

• What’s the best inexpensive pen?

• Create a reusable inventory sheet and stick it to the outside of your freezer.

• Apple has acknowledged that their maps aren’t so good.

• Short answers on What If?

• There’s science behind comfort foods. (via Lifehacker)

• Turn a pumpkin into a keg. (via Apartment Therapy)

• 15 unusual October holidays. You’ve already missed National Homemade Cookies Day and National Name Your Car Day!! (Although… what’s so unusual about Canadian Thanksgiving?!)

Cookity

• Whipped sweet potatoes with coconut milk and vanilla bean.

• Almond bread. (via The Kitchn)

• Pumpkin crumb muffins with cream cheese glaze. (via The Kitchn)

• The Gluten-Free Goddess’ favorite pumpkin recipes (scroll way down).

• Extremely moist chocolate-beet cake.

• Brownie pecan pie.

• Irish cream brownies. (via The Kitchn)

• Granola.

• Kale ceaser salad with goat gouda, avocados, and homemade croutons. (via The Kitchn)

• Radicchio salad with green olives and Parmesan cheese.

• Greek-style braised green beans.

• Spanish paella. (via The Kitchn)

• Spaghetti with broccoli cream pesto.

• Chicken sausage chili. (via The Kitchn)

• Slow cooker curried veggie and chickpea stew.

• 5 cauliflower “couscous” recipes.

• 5 gluten-free noodle dishes made with vegetables.

• 9 dairy-free recipes with calcium-rich vegetables.

• 10 veggie burger recipes.

• 10 ways to eat veggies for dessert.

• 20 ways to eat fall veggies for dinner.

Drinkity

• 10 fall cocktails.

• Aperol spritz. (via The Kitchn)

• The beekeeper’s balm cocktail.

• Low-sugar pumpkin cinnamon milkshakes.

Cool

• In the free online strategy game High Tea, you can play a British smuggler involved in the Chinese opium trade. (via JCP News)

• Dr. Strangelove in LEGO.

• LEGO hobbit board game. (via The Mary Sue)

• Ice cream cake that looks like the moon.

• “Star Wars baddies holding bunnies“.

• Tardis and Dalek salt and pepper shakers. (via The Mary Sue)

• Neil Gaiman’s hat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Knitted illustrations.

• Spider art at the Space Needle.

• Spiff up your bathroom with a Game of Thrones wall decal.

• Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe as you’ve not seen him before…

• One Ring skirt.

• Doctor Who Dalek projector alarm clock. (via The Mary Sue)

Wha…?

• Spray-on sweatbands.

• Blood-spattered white pumps. (via The Mary Sue)

• Moby Dick in space…

• Knitted boyfriend.

LOL

• Traffic lights. (Hover your cursor over the comic for additional text.)

• Sword shopping. (Again with the hovering.)

• Simon’s Cat versus the birds.

• The black cat analogy.

• 13 reasons to adopt a black cat.

• Psychedelic cats on catnip music video.

• Stock photography parody video.

Teh Cute

• Red panda! Black cat and baby! Kitten! Baby tiger! Kitten! Baby red panda! Baby cheetah! Baby red panda! Kitten! Cat and kitten toes! Baby red pandas! Baby pudu! Baby flamingo! Cat and kittens! Baby coatis! Baby tiger!

Reading Update
Note: This a completely incomplete reading update, without links to the stories and without listing all the stories I read. (You would truly be horrible if you knew how many there were.) I was contacted by the hockey rpf community and asked to not add their stories to Goodreads (or link to their stories elsewhere), as the authors were becoming very uncomfortable with the level of visibility their stories were getting (to the point that some authors locked their stories so they aren’t visible to the general public). I have honored their request, as I meant no disrespect to the hockey rpf community. If you’ve become intrigued by hockey rpf (or any other fanfic), I highly recommend that you request to join The Freeloaders group on Goodreads.

• Hanging with the Unloved Kids by ChibiRHM. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a deeply closeted team captain whose strategy has been to simply ignore that he’s gay. It’s been working ok, until he realizes that he’s slowly fallen in love with his teammate and best friend.
• See This Through by Impertinence. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a hockey player who orders a Russian bride online while he’s drunk, then forgets about it… until a scruffy Russian guy shows up on his doorstep.
• My Siberia: A Russian Knitting Circle Story by Impertinence. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a Russian hockey player whose crush on his socially awkward and oblivious team captain is apparently obvious to everyone… except his team captain.
• Play Along by shihadchick. free ebook/online fiction. Very good short rpf m/m romance about a hockey player whose teammate bets him he can’t get with the next person to come in the door of the bar… and it turns out to be his best friend (and teammate).
• Nothing But Good Times Ahead by shihadchick. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a hockey player who propositions his team captain the minute his rookie year is over.
• Enough to Crush Your Veins by doctor_denmark. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a former figure skater with a wrecked knee who’s starting college and working as a nanny for a hockey player’s three-year old son. This one builds slowly and I do wish there’d been a little more at the end.
• not gonna write you a love song by justbreathe80. free ebook/online fiction. Very good short rpf m/m romance told from the perspective of a goalie who slowly realizes that two of his teammates are together.
• run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild by justbreathe80. free ebook/online fiction. Very good short rpf m/m romance about a hockey player who realizes that his somewhat older teammate and lover may be the less experienced off the ice…
• How to Become a Man by liketheroad & mockturtletale. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance in which a team captain has to deal with his best friend and teammate who’s suddenly become a six-year old. Being able to take care of his friend gets him thinking about a lot of feelings and stuff he’s been trying not to think for a long time.
• I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together by Northern_Star. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m bodyswap romance about an uptight hockey player who scoffs at a gypsy fortune teller and is then cursed…
• This Must Be the Place by thehoyden. free ebook/online fiction. Very good rpf m/m romance about a socially awkward team captain who’s feeling lonely and upset during the offseason when a teammate gets traded away… but everything’s better when his best friend agrees to come back from Russia early to train together.
• Dynamic Immersion Method by Sharksdontsleep. free ebook/online fiction. Very good short rpf m/m romance about a hockey player who starts learning Russian to he can understand what his teammate is mumbling to him.
• Try to Map the Ocean by oflights. free ebook/online fiction. Sweet and surprisingly poignant rpf paranormal m/m romance about a hockey player who turns into a penguin and the teammate who takes care of him.

 

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