Bookish news and publishing tidbits 1 November 2011

National Year of Reading voting opens today!'love2read.org.au/our-story.cfm

Why Tintin? Does it count as a graphic novel? If Tintin why not Asterix? The 10 best graphic novels in pictures'gu.com/p/33vma/tw

Being a writer can be scary business. Heres an interview with Adam Haslett on his career -'bit.ly/tcigty

When words were scary

Hmm The Lisbeth Salander clothing range?'bit.ly/sMytzN

Bloomsbury director Richard Charkin talks about climbing the corporate ladder in publishing

Any novelist worth their salt should be taking stuff from games.'Will computer games kill the novel?'gu.com/p/33xph/tw

Fictional places you can and should visit in real life

How can a font alleviate reading problems?'goo.gl/EsNke

Thought-provoking NYT review of a new book about translation.'bit.ly/szMmV0

Sci-fi & fantasy writers! This contest has no entry fee, prize ?200 & publication in Interzone jameswhiteaward.com

First-hand accounts of Orson Welles's War of the Worlds:pen.gy/sdWBZI

An Independent Bookseller is Born: Q&A with Avid Bookshop owner Janet Geddis'bit.ly/vaAi69

Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist as in twinkle, twinkle, and it does is bleak, brutal, beautiful:'bit.ly/vjQPIB

Win a copy of Dead of Night by Jonathan Maberry atzombiegirlshambling.blogspot.com

No, Twitter Isnt Ruining the English Languageonforb.es/umlBcK

Nnedi Okorafor'has won the World Fantasy Award for her novel Who Fears Death'mbist.ro/ucSZP0

Pages & Pages Booksellers launches eBook store'wp.me/pN5JF-B8

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