Posted a few excerpts from the first chapter of my first novel, Unexpected Neighbor, at Knotted Spring Press Review.
When I finally manage to format it all for SmashWords, I’ll let y’all know.
And, hey, if you know anyone who might be interested in publicizing their work, send ’em my way. Yeah, it’s all still very beta, but why not leap and look at the same time?
AbsurdBeats 
i liked that bit, that’s a lot of characters to keep up
branching/opting out of the academy might be very timely:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/05/16/life_for_college_professors_is_no_longer_what_it_once_was
http://www.pitt.edu/~beg9/emm.html