Two of my favorite authors have released books within the last three days (within the last two hours for one of them):

Robin McKinley just released Dragonhaven, and Terry Pratchett just released Making Money. I haven’t read either one yet, but both are in the mail. Hot dang!

Also, I just discovered that Robin McKinley has a blog on LiveJournal. And I thought life couldn’t get any weirder.

In other news, Okkervil River’s new album The Stage Names is amazingly good, as is Stars’ new album In Our Bedroom After the War (both links lead to the iTunes store, but both albums are also available from eMusic; the bonus track on The Stage Names from eMusic is a great song, too).

I’m surprised how much great stuff has been coming out recently by authors and artists that I love. I’m behind on the times.