Monday Hangovers

• Cybils nominees announced! (Because I have been too busy to breathe lately, I didn't get over to make nominations, but am very, very happy to see all the books I'd have nominated on the lists anyway. This year's first-round judges have a tough time ahead.)
• Help YA author Kris Reisz launch a writing program for teens in Decatur, Alabama. (Via Guys Lit Wire.)
• Humanity Plus claims billionaires are funding science fiction. Who do we need to give our address to, again, for the check?
• Oh, and as for Meghan, she's been filling her brain with sparkly vampires. It may not have been fun to read, but her ranting about Twilight? So worth it.
• Gavin's been blogging over at Bookslut and posting all sorts of interesting stuff, like an interview with Tobin Anderson about Octavian Nothing 2 (or, as I like to call it, The Most Brilliant Book of the Year) and an imaginary interview with Margo Lanagan and Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert (the imaginary part, but in a just world! I'm just reading Tender Morsels now and it is full of the weird and the insanely genius writing). For more M.T. Anderson, see Julie Larios's eagle eye picking out a tres appropriate photo of the author.
• Geoff Ryman spends the week at Omnivoracious. Much as I love Geoff and his writing, I must disagree with the view that: "Self-expression is art, but self-promotion is an agenda that curdles art into advertising. The blog becomes an online publicity, the comments a way to draw attention, marking territory." I'm not saying this isn't true, but I think it's wrong as a sweeping generalization. The best blogs simply aren't about online publicity. At least, not primarly and not the ones I read. But then, I believe that the best blogs function largely as part of an elaborate gift economy, with any benefits coming because they aren't the endgame. Because the endgame is just to share stuff. Still, it's guaranteed to be a provocative week, and you should all run out and buy The King's Last Song.
• Also at Omnivoracious, an interview with Jeff Ford on the occasion of the Well-Built City trilogy being reissued by Golden Gryphon Press.
• The election translated D&D style.