I have a word doc in which I place anything I might want to blog about; questions people have asked (with the answers I'm working on), links or articles as the basis of discussion of a larger topic, market info for Friday's posting, or just things I find interesting, helpful or funny. I don't always to get to things in a timely manner, but I still want to mention them, so here are some miscellaneous items I've collected over the past week or so. 

Here’s an online community with knowledge and ‘tude. MFA Bitch is a litblog writing collective for women with a literary degree.

A debut author talks about his experience in writing his novel and getting published.

The New Yorker Festival had a panel on comics that featured comics writer Grant Morrison; comics writer, illustrator, and creator of Hellboy, Mike Mignola; novelist and writer of Marvel's new “Omega the Unknown” series Jonathan Lethem; and creator of the popular television show “Heroes,” Tim Kring. The event was moderated by magazine editor and fiction author Ben Greenman. Galleycat has the basics, but head over to CBR to get the details. 

If you're in San Fransisco Oct. 12th and have nothing to do around 7:30 pm, go check out the Literary Death Match sponsored by Opium magazine. Hmm...I wonder if I could get one of my sisters to go check it out for me. It's part of LitQuake, a San Francisco literary festival that runs now until Oct. 13th. Oh, and New Yorkers shouldn't feel left out. Opium is taking the Literary Death Match to New York on Oct. 23rd to launch its fifth issue.

Butcher’s Dresden Files are being made into graphic novels. Butcher is all over the geekiness on his blog. Here's to hoping the graphic novels are better received than the tv series (though I actually liked the tv show) and have a longer life.