One of the other small things I occasionally do is make sure that someone has looked down the list of blogs at AuthorsBlogs.com and check for dead blog links.
Right now, there are a little over 450 blog links on there.
The only job is to make sure that

The links listed on Authors [...]

From Gawker.com
A letter to publicists making the rounds:
From: Catherine Dash
Posted At: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Author feature for lucky mag
My name is Catherine Dash. I work in the special sections department at Lucky magazine.
We would like to feature an attractive female author that has a newly released book, in our August issue.
We are [...]

No, I don’t have the mumps.
I once had the mumps. I must have been seven or eight.
I got it on one side of my neck. I don’t really remember, but I remember everyone telling me that once you get it, you never get it again.
Months went by.
And then I got the mumps [...]

When is a national tragedy too soon to depict the events in a movie? In a book? In a comic book?
While detail after detail can be laid out for the reader in prose version, it’s almost always more visceral when that happens in a movie. The emotions that play out on people’s [...]

TV Squad has a post up today quoting a New York Post article about two Sunday Night ABC shows, “Desperate Housewives” and “Grey’s Anatomy”:
ABC will likely rejigger its Sunday-night lineup next season - moving “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Desperate Housewives” to a different night.
The move would free up some valuable real estate for one of three [...]

There is currently a debate of sorts raging on who will play Wonder Woman in Joss Whedon’s eponymous upcoming film (2007). Apparently people care (well, fans do, so I am told). Thus, to keep anyone interested in the loop, we will link you to a little slide show that AOL posted recent about who’s [...]

Parts of Houston went without power this afternoon as grid operators shut off service to make up for a shortfall of about 1,000 megawatts caused by the convergence of power plant maintenance season and exceptionally warm weather.
At 6:10 p.m, ERCOT declared that the emergency was over and the blackouts were supposed to stop.
Beginning sometime after [...]