Happy August! Only two more weeks until my girls are back at school, and so I thought, since things have been piling up this week, on the linky side (and otherwise), I’d just give you a linky roundup.

Registration and hotel information for KidLitCon 2010 is up. Go check it out, and, seriously, think about coming. It’s a whole lot of bookish geeky fun. Also, the deadline for proposals has been extended to

So, I’ve finally jumped on the Castle bandwagon. I was doing some poking around — mostly because M adores Beckett’s clothing and wants something like her blue coat for her birthday — and discovered that Richard Castle’s got a Twitter account and has been doing a mystery this summer. Very cool. Did some more poking around and discovered that Hyperion, which admittedly is run by Disney who owns ABC, has put out the first Nikki Heat book. Written by Richard Castle. Now, this may just be me, but I’m not quite sure what I think about a real book written by a fictional character. Then again, it does prompt the question: who’s the ghost writer, and are they any good? (As an aside, Nathan Fillion’s tweets are highly amusing…)

Estella’s Revenge, the e-zine, is back! Well, almost. It’s scheduled to go live this week. Hooray!

And, I found this interesting — beware of spoilers, though: Kristen Cashore gives advice and insights into writing intimate scenes. Fascinating stuff.

And finally, it’s been making the rounds, but as a lover of all things Jane, I can’t pass it up:

Enjoy!