I don’t know quite how I feel about this story, but it sure is an interesting read: A romantasy author is accusing an agent, editor, and another author of colluding to steal her novel. This piece from the New Yorker is a great, even-handed look at the situation.A keyboard with a mechanical word-counter to track your writing? I don’t want one…but I kinda want to want one! Check it out.The California wildfires are a horror beyond imagining, and there’s damn little I can say here about them that would mean anything at all. But I found this article absolutely fascinating…and a little bit of hope in a world that sorely needs it: “Los Angeles Wildfires: Why These Homes Didn’t Burn“Apparently, design guru Karl Lagerfeld was obsessed with iPods and owned hundreds of them, each of them altered to his own standards and in his own style. Now they’re up for auction.