All the news that's fit to capsulize!
WHO WANTS HOT LINKS?
• Mark your calendars: 2009's
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 2, piggybacking off the theatrical release of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE.
• Speaking of comics, Marvel and Tor have joined forces to let you read
ENDER'S GAME: BATTLE SCHOOL #1 for free online, this month only. The comic coincides with the release of Orson Scott Card's
ENDER IN EXILE, the latest entry in the series.
• Orbit Books is giving away a
chain mail T-shirt to promote K.J. Parker's
THE COMPANY. Just don't wear it on a date ... not that you'd have one.
• If you want to start a new book club,
The Reading Club is a website that offers more than 40 articles on a variety of topics, from starting one to dealing with problem members, and everything in between.
—Rod Lott
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Based in Oklahoma City, Rod Lott spends his days as the managing editor of Oklahoma's largest alternative weekly newspaper. In his "spare time," he is the editor of Hitch Magazine: The Journal of Pop Culture Absurdity, and some of his humor essays have appeared in the anthologies 101 DAMNATIONS (St. Martin's Press), MORE MIRTH OF A NATION (HarperCollins) and MAY CONTAIN NUTS (HarperCollins). He also adapts classic short stories to comic book form for the ongoing GRAPHIC CLASSICS series of graphic novels from Eureka Publishing. Theoretically, you could keep track of all his projects here, should he find time to update it.
