First!  Skylights just got a really nice write-up over at Cat Lumb’s blog.  Go check it out, and look through her archives a bit while you’re at it– there’s some neat stuff over there.

Second!  We are thisclose to being within a month of the release of The Sanctum of the Sphere, the second Benevolence Archives book.  Expect to hear things about this!  Also, if anyone’s interested in helping out with promotion, keep an eye out this week, because I’ll be floating a couple of ideas out. Meanwhile, if you liked Benevolence Archives, vol. 1, you can pre-order the Sanctum ebook right now for just $4.95.  The print edition will be an omnibus of both BA books; I don’t have a price just yet.

Third!  If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen that I’ve been pushing BA 1 with a different site lately.  Openbooks.com just concluded their open beta period and is open to the world now, and you can pick up Benevolence Archives 1 over there for free.  The way the site is different: It’ll prompt you to pay once you finish the book, and you can literally pay whatever you want for it depending on how much you like what you’ve read.  The site also encourages sharing of the digital files.  You don’t have to pay, of course– which I genuinely don’t mind, because the book is free on other sites anyway.  Amazingly, Benevolence Archives 1 is currently the #1 science fiction book on the site.  There’s also an option to leave star ratings and reviews; if you’ve previously read BA through Amazon or whoever, I’d love it if you’d be willing to leave a star review at least.  Check the place out.