Biggest news for me this week was that Emma Bull has a new book due out from Tor this summer, Territory. Described as "a magical tale of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral...", I am thrilled beyond belief to see this one coming our way in July. Tombstone is still one of my alltime favorite movies - I fell in love all over again with Kurt Russell over that movie and don't even get me started on Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday (and Sam Elliott - is there a bad western with Sam Elliott?). This is just a match made in heaven as far as I'm concerned and I'm really surprised that I haven't heard about it from anyone else on the web already.

As if a new Emma Bull was not enough though, Will Shetterly also has a new book out in July: The Gospel of the Knife. Set in 1969, it follows teenager Christopher Nix whose family is contacted "by a mysterious benefactor who wants to send Chris to an exclusive private school, no expense spared." He claims to be repaying a debt to Chris's grandfather (already deceased) from WW2 but Chris is not so sure. There is magic and, ultimately, the book "...explores questions of faith, responsibility, and the always complex relationship

And now because I dared to open a pdf file in Netscape and Firefox felt somehow compelled to dump me out of my site and open the file here instead, I need to walk away. Yes, I had saved part of this entry but not all of it and I'm so flaming pissed I can't keep typing.

Here were the other links I had written in much abbreviated form:

Go see Brockwell's thoughts on several stories that were big in the lit blogosphere over the past few days. I agree completely with his conclusions. (Also note that Anthony Swofford is next week's guest blogger at Powells.)

The Green Man Review has a great end of year list of recommendations that includes thoughts from folks like Holly Black, Elizabeth Hand and Peter S. Beagle.

Don't Go Where I Can't Follow by Anders Nilsen is proof of the amazing things that are being done by graphic novelists today (as if Eddie Campbell's Fate of the Artist wasn't enough). If you have lost anyone to illness, then Nilsen's work about his fiance will speak to you on multiple levels.

Another example of why Tim Powers' A Soul in a Bottle is outstanding, (as I said last month).

And an Elizabeth Bear serial is beginning over at Sub Press. Stories for free - how can you resist? (This just might salvage my mood...........)