Peace Offering
Apologies for the earlier crankiness...To make up for it, let me point you now to a wonderful interview with Sarah Weinman of Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind. If you follow the world of publishing and the mystery genre to any extent, you'll become a devotee of Sarah's reporting. She's a wonderful resource.
Update: As luck would have it, JenClair, being the utterly brilliant woman she is, linked to exactly these same two items today.
Maybe the right answer is to avoid blogging on a Monday...