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Lots of blogs and magazines have been debating if Harry Potter has helped (by bringing millions of kids back to books) or hurt (by swamping the market with unfair standards for blockbuster books) the publishing industry.

SF Signal has avoided the whole silly debate, creating a way to share new books with Harry Potter fans--books that both Potter-lovers and Potter Haters can love. Instead of fighting, let's use Harry Potter as a doorway to a whole world of lesser-known classics.

Download the PDF and share it with the kids in your life...

We spend so much time fantasizing about writing our first novel that we probably don't even think about the unique struggles of writing our SECOND NOVEL...

Over at Bookseller Chick, Christine Fletcher (author of Tallulah Falls) guest-blogs about her second time around the block. Dig it:

"The challenge of the second novel is making it better than the first, and writing it faster. It took me almost four years to complete Tallulah Falls. For the second book, I had one year. I also had two day jobs, and Tallulah to promote. Not to mention a boyfriend, a house, friends, family, pets…"

Finally, tech journalist hero Clive Thompson asks the question someone should have asked a long time ago. We love B-movies, but where in the heck are the B-videogames?

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