J.K. Rowling is dangling the possibility of writing, for charity, an encyclopedia of Harry Potter's world.

Larry, of OF Blog of the Fallen, ponders elitism and the clanishness of specific-author fandom. (I have to admit, the behaviors he describes are very alien to me -- how could you possibly read only one fantasy series, and hate every other kind of novel? What on earth would you read the rest of the time? People are really weird sometimes.)

SF Scope reports that Baen Books has also hired a new editorial assistant (Kayt Hensley) and a freelance consulting editor (Gray Rinehart), in addition to adding Jim Minz as Senior Editor.

ABEbooks.com is running a contest in which they'll give away a bookshelf made from Harry Potter books to the best Harry Potter-themed poem.

I think that it would be a glitch

Finding a poem more lovely than a Snitch...

Jeff VanderMeer, writing in the Amazon Blog, lists the winners of Finland's Tahtivaelaja-award (for best SF book) for the last twenty years.

Want to know what Nebula Awards Weekend was like? Well, ask Jeffrey Carver or Tobias S. Buckell.

Charles Stross posts the text of a recent (very long) talk he gave on the side-effects of technology to TNG Technology Consulting of Munich.

Colleen Mondor went looking for mysteries in the YA world, didn't find all that many pure ones, and wandered over into thinking about fantasy YAs with mystery elements (including books by Mark Del Franco, Justine Larbalestier, and Kristopher Reisz).