5 things

1.
Kelly Link, who is one of the most amazing writers working in our field today, made a guest blog post at Forever Young about her daughter Ursula. It is a beautiful, sad, scary, hopeful essay, and although, as Kelly says, it isn't much like the stories she writes, at the same time, it really is.

2.
Jay Lake has an ambition for The Specific Gravity of Grief:

I have a long term ambition for this book, which is to have copies make their way into oncologist's offices and infusion centers around...