I’ve been fighting exhaustion all winter. You might get some idea of how tired I’ve been, and why, when I say that where I live we’ve had forty inches of snow since December.

While I’m trying to come up with a real post, here are a couple more links:

1. How would you feel if you were a new SF writer, and on the back of your brand-spanking-new first novel you found this?

(Via.)

2. Jeff VanderMeer is soliciting his readers’ weird stories on his blog.