The (very) late morning link roundup

Meetings, real work, blah blah blah. And would the temperature please drop a little bit? Please?

Think Pottermania has made everyone happy? Uh, not if you’re Ottakars, which blames a 6-7% drop in sales to supermarkets stockpiling the book and selling them at El Cheapo prices.

Have a story to tell? Or think you do and believe that you should inflict this upon the world? Well, Richard & Judy and Random House have a contest for you.

Where did all the female adventure novelists go? Kate Mosse, whose novel LABYRINTH is one such book, asks the question for the New Statesman.

Robert Birnbaum chats with Ian McEwan about SATURDAY, Virginia Woolf, and lots of other goodies.

When critics attack: James Wood v. Dan Green. Like CAAF, all I can do is stand on the sidelines, eating bonbons and wondering who will win.

Some folks might wonder why Kate White’s offering up her advice on writing, but not me — I happen to like her books quite a lot, thank you very much.

John Sandford’s novels are only starting to get the same kind of attention in the UK that they do in the US, and he conducts a short email interview with Tangled Web about the newest, BROKEN PREY.

Anthony Rainone provides all sorts of compelling reasons to read Don Winslow’s THE POWER OF THE DOG for January Magazine. Really, it’s a phenomenal book and I still wonder why the hell it wasn’t reviewed by more major outlets (sprawling drug epic! Fabulous characters! What more do you need?)

And finally…um…well….let Jennifer Jordan give you the details.