Here are your links to the SBBT interviews today. Don't forget to check out the Master Schedule for the whole week's links (and quotes)!

Rita Williams-Garcia at Fuse Number 8: "I called the Oakland Police Department to confirm the color of siren lights back in the sixties. I dug through old newspapers for the prices of everything from 45 records, to stamps to a whole fryer chicken. I took a sweep through my silly 1967-‘68 diary. Silly, indeed! "

Jennifer Hubbard at Writing & Ruminating: "We keep hearing how people have short attention spans now, how we live in a sound-byte society. And yet, short stories haven’t found as big a market as novels have, just like short films haven’t found as big an audience as longer feature films have. It seems counter-intuitive!"

Charise Mericle Harper at Shelf Elf: "Cupcakes = mini celebrations. You got an A on your spelling test, let’s get you a cupcake. You didn’t yell back at your boss, you deserve a cupcake. You fixed the toilet! I’m going to bake you some cupcakes. "

Holly Schindler at Little Willow: "The idea of the "mad genius" is so pervasive, there's even a Wikipedia entry for "Creativity and Mental Illness!"

Mary Jane Beaufrand at The Ya, Ya, Yas: "It’s strange, but I think these days “historical fiction” has almost become shorthand for “historical romance.” Which is fine, but there’s so much more to it. Violence and art, for example."

[Post title taken from Charise Mericle Harper's interview at Shelf Elf!]