Oh where does the time go?  Is it Thursday already?

This has been quite a busy week in my pay-the-rent job, which goes a long way toward explaining why the blog is a little slim this week — and shifted one day to the right, as they say in business speak.  (At least in English, they say this.  I wonder if Arab businessmen postpone events ilá yasár or “to the left” …)

Enough chitterchat. On to the publishing links!

♣ The inestimable Jason Boog at Galley Cat lists some of the best publishing pages on Facebook.

♣ Carla Nayland at Historical Fiction offers some photos to show how to work real places into your writing.

♣ Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware! debunks the myth of the evil editor and follows up with the importance of self-editing.

The PUBLISHING LINK OF THE WEEK award goes to Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy for offering some skeptical perspective on Amazon’s recent ebook huzzahs:

When CDs began to outpace vinyl, music companies realized that they could sell the same original works to fans a second time, in a new format. How much of Amazon.com’s Kindle sales are an echo of this —  readers purchasing much-loved favorites in a new format — is impossible to say without seeing sales figures based on specific titles. And that’s something that no companies, neither publishers nor Amazon.com, seems interested in releasing.

Omission justifies suspicion, I always say.