• Jennifer Rardin has a zombie (!) story up at The League of Reluctant Adults.
• Marie Brennan shares a midnight revelation on the importance of blood, love and rhetoric in fiction (with a hat-tip to Tom Stoppard).
• And Marie Brennan’s Midnight Never Come continues to attract reviewers’ attention, months after publication: NextRead.co.uk is the latest blog to label it “highly recommended”.
• Reviewer Kelly Malcher has good things to say about Orphanage, the first book in Robert Buettner’s Jason Wander series, over at Fandomania.com.
• The latest edition of pdf e-zine Falcata Times (warning: cover art somewhat NSFW) includes an interview with Jacqueline Carey.
• New-author-on-the-Orbit-block Michael Cobley seems rather pleased with the Steve Stone cover artwork for his new novel The Seeds of Earth.
• Kate Elliott answers readers’ questions: on developing themes and on outlining her novels.
• Pamela Freeman has re-posted Stuart Mayne’s review of her latest Orbit novel, Deep Water.
• Charlie Huston’s US Publisher, Random House, is giving away pdf copies of his three ‘Hank Thompson’ crime novels, in conjunctions with MonstersAndCritics.com.
• Meanwhile Charlie Huston has posted reader Anne Kimbol’s Joe Pitt primer – warning: spoilers! – as well as part VIII of his ongoing Book of All Future Names project.
• Glenda Larke says fantasy writers shouldn’t be afraid of using fantasy tropes, memes and clichés, as long as they use them well.
• Ken MacLeod has taken part in Spiked Online’s Enlightening the Future debate [via Futurismic.com]
• John C. Snider takes a look at Ken MacLeod’s The Night Sessions in his SfiFiDimensions.com review.
• Two more reviews of K. J. Parker’s new stand-alone fantasy novel The Company: Highlander’s Book Reviews calls it a novel that goes “beyond the boundaries and norms of the fantasy genre” and Fantasy Book News and Reviews uses the recent Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist review as a springboard for a discussion of the book’s central premise.
• Marianne de Pierres reveals the title of the fourth book in her Sentients of Orion series, and that our very own ‘Big Ed‘ was instrumental in the process…
• Lilith Saintcrow explains why writers do what they do and explores the myth of the destructive artist.
• Charles Stross explores that strange feeling of having just finished a novel.
• Brent Weeks is winning over even more fans out in the blogosphere with his debut series The Night Angel Trilogy: BloodOfTheMuse.com has posted Paul Stotts’ reviews of The Way of Shadows and Shadow’s Edge, Liviu C Suciu’s review of The Way of Shadows is live at FantasyBookCritic.blogspot.com and BookSpotCentral.com has run another extremely favourable review of The Way of Shadows. Don’t worry, folks – not too long now until Beyond the Shadows reveals all…
• Orbit authors Sean Williams and Allen Steele have taken part in a mind-meld on the future of Science Fiction, over at www.SFSignal.com.

And finally…

• A Hallowe’en audio-treat from our housemates at Little, Brown: a free-to-download reading of Charlotte Bronte’s ghostly tale ‘Napoleon and the Spectre’: Part One & Part Two.