Friends and Lover

www.trevaharte.com This is the website of my beloved, long-suffering, very patient wife. She writes women’s fiction with an emphasis on the “erotic” side.

www.loose-id.com This is the website for a women’s writing publishing firm that my wife co-founded.

www.tommoody.us Tom Moody is an old college roommate of mine who is now an artist and critic in En Why. Topics from the plastic arts and beyond are dealt with definitively at his website.

http://math.smsu.edu/~les/ This is the website of another old friend, Les Reid, who is a professor of mathematics at a Midwestern university.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/life/writers/troymoon/ Old Army buddy Troy Moon is enjoying a second act as a music critic for a Pensacola newspaper.

Writer’s Resources

www.ralan.com The best free source of information on speculative fiction markets. Absolutely bar none.

www.writersmarket.com Another good source on writers’ markets, both general and genre. This is a paying site, however.

Blogs

www.dailykos.com The first step in any effort to find out the truth. Essential.

www.juancole.com If you want to find out what’s happening in Iraq, a good place to start is by reading someone who knows something about the subject. Prof. Cole, an Arabist with experience living in the Middle East, fits that bill.

http://icasualties.org/oif/ Iraq coalition casualty count. Go here to get a rough idea just how much this little adventure is costing us in blood and treasure.

http://agonist.org/ One of the best online news surveys.

http://doc40.blogspot.com/ Mick Farren: rock critic, rock star, journalist, novelist, English professor, and man of letters. His blog contains insights on politics, popular culture, and personal details.

http://atrios.blogspot.com/ The shrill and stident counterpoint to the Daily Kos. Your daily dose of snark.

http://www.rawstory.com/ News for progressives, served up tabloid style.

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/ You may not agree with Colonel Lang's political outlook, but you cannot dismiss his military and area expertise. An excellent source of analysis.