Trying to find my way through the intertubes

[megwrites]

1. Is there a compiled list anywhere of published authors that possess a livejournal? I know there's a list of writers/editors/etc who have LJs, but any that are just of *published* authors? Yes, I am a slightly stalkerish fen who loves to lurk around the blogs of the authors she reads.

No, I don't send them creepy things in the mail. Although once, when I was thirteen, I wrote a letter to an author who I was not sure was alive or dead yet, because the book had been written in the 1960's. I didn't send it out (obviously), but it's weird to start out a fan letter with "if you're not dead yet...I really loved your book."

2. Does anyone (ANYONE!) know how to convert a piece of text that's single spaced to double spacing without having to go back and physically remove the single space paragraph breaks? Bonus if you know how to do this in OpenOffice.

3. What would you say is the best place on the interwebs to get SF/F book reviews, particularly of books that have recently come out? Also, is there a list somewhere of SF/F books that are coming out each month? I know you could go to each press/publisher's website, but is there somewhere that it's CONSOLIDATED? I got to get my SF/F reads in, yo.

Comments

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

domynoe keeps a Whitelist of writers, editors, and other publishing professionals. The last update was, I believe, here (http://domynoe.livejournal.com/80319.html). Whether that's JUST published authors, I don't know, and it may be the one you already know about. For reviews of new SF, try slushgod, who is the assistant editor at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Then there's Locus Online (http://www.locusmag.com/), which is a sort of sci-fi clearinghouse.

If you put the line breaks in between paragraphs manually, you may have to take them out manually. I just poked around in Wordperfect, however, and after adding manual paragraph breaks, I found that I could go to "Format: Paragraph> Format" and have it put the spacing between paragraphs at .5 lines, which takes care of that. Then you should be able to use "Format: Line> Spacing" to double-space the whole doc. Hopefully OpenOffice has the equivalent functions. :)

[nwhyte]

I find the sfbookclub feed pretty comprehensive.