Tony Hillerman died on Sunday, October 26, of pulmonary disease at age 83.

John Joseph Adams has a new anthology out:

Gathering stories by nine of today’s most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil, technological advancement, and political revolution. Many serve as a call to action. How will you change with the future?

Three of the stories are available for free download: "Arties Aren't Stupid" by Jeremiah Tolbert, "The Future by Degrees" by Jay Lake, and "Resistance" by Tobias Buckell. Excerpts from others are there as well. The other authors in the collection are Ted Kosmatka, K. D. Wentworth, Blake Charlton, Ken MacLeod, Mark Budz, and Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu.

By the way, there's already a review up by John Ottinger of Grasping For The Wind, who has been kind enough to review us in the past.

Sounds like a fun way to launch a book:

More than 900 Borders and Waldenbooks stores across the country will celebrate the highly anticipated release of Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final book in Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire-inspired "Twilight" series, with exciting in-store book release parties beginning at 10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 and culminating at midnight when the book officially goes on sale. The Borders and Waldenbooks parties, themed "From Twilight til Dawn: A Night with a Bite," will include costume contests, trivia contests and lively debates on themes from the book series.

More details are in the press release.

93-year-old Lorna Page is having her first novel published. She plans to use the book's proceeds to buy a large house in Devon, England, so she can "give a real home to some of her friends" who are currently in nursing homes. She says, "I started writing as soon as I could hold a pencil; fairy stories, poetry, short stories, and now my novel, a who-done-it. Seems I've been writing for a hundred years and that's practically true!"

The press release provides some interesting details of her life before discussing the book itself, A Dangerous Weakness, which will be (self-) published by AuthorHouse in July.

Read the press release.