I’m seeing stars. Well, not real ones, not right at this moment, since it is (A) morning and (B) gray and rainy out. But I got the page proofs (aka my-last-chance-to-fix-things) for Circus Galacticus, and the title page has stars on it! Nothing is final yet, but I hope the black starry background stays. I love it! I need to try to find out whether it’s a real image and if so of what.

And for your potential amusement and interest, here are the last five links I starred in my Google Reader:

Shannon Hale’s post on the danger of excusing bullying boy behavior as “that’s how boys show they like you.” Very thought-provoking!

A gorgeous new Hubble shot of a star formation region.

New video from Zooborns of a playful baby elephant!

A post from Discover about a recent study on how America sees the future. 53% envision ordinary people traveling in space. But 58% expect another World War.

Liz B at A Chair, A Fireplace & a Tea Cozy directs us all to a new READ poster featuring Nathan Fillion. Woohoo! I have recently been watching and really enjoying his new show Castle (and I was a big Firefly fan already). I was even more excited to see that the book he’s holding is YA scifi: The Softwire: Awakening on Orbis 4, by PJ Haarsma. Go scifi!

And in one last bit of starry news, I was delighted to find out that TeensReadToo posted a lovely review of The Magical Misadventures of Prunella Bogthistle, and gave it a Gold Star Award for Excellence. Thank you TeensReadToo!

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