Blogroll
My blogroll’s getting a bit too large to put on my sidebar, so I’ve moved it here. Most of these are the blogs I keep on my RSS reader and read religiously, as well as some recommended websites that I use as resources for various things.
Author Blogs
- Neil Gaiman's Journal
- Phantasy Punk
- Terrible Minds Blog of Chuck Wendig – lots of good writing advice.
- Tobias Buckell
- Wil Wheaton It’s Wil Wheaton. That’s all you need to know.
Bibliophile Blogs and Sites
- A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette A tongue in cheek instruction manual on proper librarian manners.
- BiblioBuffet Food and Books. Need I say any more?
- Bookshelf Porn The single most awesome collection of photographs of bookshelves on the web.
- Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos My source of Tattoo related inspiration.
- Librarian Avengers Why you should fall down on your knees and worship a librarian
- LibraryThing Book Cataloging and Recommendations
- My Favorite Word My favorite word is chartreuse, though I hate the color. What’s yours?
- The Literary Cat Books and Cats – the greatest combination known to man
Comics
- Cat vs. Human This Is My Life.
- InkyGirl Daily Diversions for Writers
- Intragalactic A humorous take on starships with overconfident and oversexed captains, and their loyal crew.
- Surviving the World Daily Tips for….you guessed it.
- The Oatmeal Funny Representations of Ordinary Things
- XKCD Comics For Geeks
Costuming, Crafts, and Fashion
- Craft: Wonderful Craft site and magazine from the same people as Make:
- Cupcake Provacateur The sexiest aprons you could ever want.
- Dollar Store Crafts Crafts and Pretties for People on a Budget (like me!)
- Not Martha
- Regretsy They’re trying to sell WHAT?
Defying Categorization - Miscellany
- Amanda Palmer Website for Amanda Fucking Palmer
- I speak for the trees
- It Had Better Be Good
- Labyrinthine Library Blog for a wonderful designer friend of mine
Foodie Sites and Blogs
- Bake and Destroy A Punk Rock Baker Momma’s creative baked creations!
- Cake Wrecks When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong.
- Not Martha
- Tartelette I could never afford to make half the things she does or be able to find the ingredients here – but oh, I would want to.
- The Food Geek The Science of Cooking
- Use Real Butter Well, it’s my philosophy too.
Gaming
- Border House Breaking Down Borders in Video Games
- Feminist Gamers The Real Games for Girls….
- Lost in (Game) Space
- The Android's Closet
Geek Stuff
- Clockwork Hare A Linux Chic on a Mission
- Geek Feminism
- Geek with Curves Excellent geek girl blog!
- Geeks are Sexy Tech news from a Geek Girl
- The Great Geek Manual
- The Intellectual Blathering Tumblog Wherein I Fangirl About Silly Things. Mostly David Tennant, Doctor Who, and Sherlock.
- The Mary Sue Geekery from a Girl’s Perspective
Resources for Writers
- BookSquare
- Editorial Anonymous Written by a Children’s Book Editor
- Editorial Ass I work in publishing and I like to read things. Herewith: free association on books, nice things I ate, publishing, editing, and other nice things I ate.
- InkyGirl Daily Diversions for Writers
- Janet Reid, Literary Agent
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent
- Query Shark Advice on Query Letters
- Slushpile Hell An Agent shares certain “gems” from the slushpile
- The Intern The straight dope on publishing from publishing’s most fearsome figure—THE INTERN.
- The Rejectionist Wondering why your book gets rejected? Well, Rejections are this assistant’s job!
- The Write Cafe Writing prompts and discussions about writing
Writing Tools and Apps
- Liquid Story Binder An excellent note-taking, outlining, and organizational writing tool, and a suitable Windows substitute for the Mac-only Scrivener. Costs about $45.
- Q10 Distraction Free Writing
- yWriter Freeware, Open Source writing software windows/linux alternative to Scrivener
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