Vera Nazarian Needs your help

Financially strapped, Vera Nazarian is asking you donate to her kickstarter, Cobweb Bride, that she may continue to write.

free ebooks and education

Oz books free online and downloadable with original illustrations (still a favorite)

Mediabistro's site pointing to free ebooks (a bit annoying as it reloads itself occasionally yet unnecessarily, using bandwidth)

Coursera.org offers free courses from literature to science to history to mythology.

On Fairy Tales

Tolkien's "On Fairy-Stories" (Wiki Summary, Tolkien professor, How to Read Tolkien, essay)

Wiki: Fantasy Fairy Tales

Terri Windling's World-Fantasy-winning Journal of Mythic Arts

Fairy Tale Review

Philip Pullman, at The Guardian, promoting his new book

Kiini Ibura Salaam on how to see your novel anew

Michael Swanwick on the sounds of Beowolf

XKCD on the importance of double-checking work and the SOH-CAH-TOA

Black Static interviews Simon Strantzas

1000 years of warfare in five minutes

Free ebooks & music

Just discovered Bibliotastic, a site with free ebooks (with suggested donations).  It includes authors Charles Stross, Brett Savory, Tom Lichtenberg, among others.

Paul Westerberg of The Replacements has a new song for free, "My Road Now."

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Illustrated heroes of the periodic table
Flavorwire's 10 Underrated Books
There goes a Mundane SF trope, formerly banned:  Warp Drives

Largely literary links

LA Times' David L. Ulin's perspective on reviews

SF Site Interview with writer/editor Eric James Stone (earlier review of his story collection)

91-year-old writer debuts first novel

Educator and author James Van Pelt on student essays and plagiarism

Charlie Jane Anders on her revision method

WWII bomb detonated in Germany

First-time novelist Eric Griffith on things he learned in the process