So, in a random selection of Things I Found Interesting On The Internet This Morning:

There's a great experiment going on - the online novel, a collaborative novel written 'live' by a bunch of authors. Go watch interviews and other happenings as the authors write their novel over six days.

Dean Wesley Smith (of 'Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing') has a great blog post comparing the traditional publishing book-as-produce model with the self-published possibilities. His math is entirely based on suppositions, but it's still a good read, and something to consider. In the vein of traditional publishing, Carolyn Kaufman on QueryTracker has an excellent suggestion of what to do during the agonising wait to hear back from an agent or editor - bug other agents and editors with submissions of other stories. So simple! So sensible!

On the author-business side of things, Steve Saus has some interesting things to say on the notion of using 'tip jars' on your website, and the CEO of Kobo, who've released an e-reader of their own, has granted an interview with CBC News discussing the future of e-books and publishing as he sees it.

And for fantasy and horror lovers: How Many Ways Can You Write About Zombies, ('nuff said), and how fantastic do we want our fantasy -  some brief thoughts on the real effects of those 'fantasy trappings' we proclaim to love.

For lovers of the Old Spice adds - Cthulhu Old Spice.

And, as promised - Terry Pratchett, who is to be knighted, has made his own sword for the knighting from iron-ore in his local village and meteorite. Squee!