On this slow, lazy southern Saturday, I’m taking the easy way out by posting a few links to recent posts in my other blogs.

“The Apartment” to the rescue on Sun Singer’s Travels discusses my use of a reference to this old Billy Wilder movie to show how my protagonist Jock Stewart feels about himself on a down evening. I think the reference works even for readers who’ve never seen the film. Check out my “FriendFeed” while you’re here.

In Movie and Book References Help Define your Characters on Writer’s Notebook I suggest that while current popular culture references can date a book, mentioning older movies and books can add atmosphere and show what your characters are all about.

Eye Blink Fiction features a short excerpt from my novel “Garden of Heaven” about liberty in a 1960s sailor town.

Readers Looking for ‘The Lust Symbol’ Ravish Bookstore on Morning Satirical News is another off-the-wall satire about what happens when a bookstore owner gets the name of Dan Brown’s new novel wrong in his advertising.

When our water heater went out earlier this week, I wrote about it in The Water Heater on my MythRider weblog.

If you read book reviews on your quest for new books, I invite you to read take a look at Janice Harayda’s One-Minute Book Reviews and The Rose City Reader (out of Portland, Oregon). See also, Ms. Bookish – My life among books.

As always, I hope you’ll stop by my publisher, Vanilla Heart Publishing and take a look at their wonderful selection of books including “Jock Stewart and the Missing Sea of Fire.” If you’re a writer of poetry, essays/articles and short stories with a focus on the out doors, you might be interested in submitting a piece for the upcoming “Earth’s Gifts” anthology which will celebrate Earth Day 2010. The deadline is December 31, 2009.

Have an enjoyable weekend.

Malcolm