The Great Geek Manual

Art

• Tenacious Toys is accepting preorders for its line of Bertie Bots.

Comics

• NPR has compiled a list of literary graphic novels titled These Aren’t Your Geek’s Graphic Novels.

Film

• Interview: Submit questions for Digg’s upcoming interview with Peter Jackson.
• The BBC takes a look at How Disney created its first African-American princess.
• Den of Geek has some of the first photos from the upcoming BioShock movie.
• Reuters names the Top 10 movie flops of the decade.
• Total Film is looking forward towards The 49 Films That Will Define 2010.
• Yahoo! News remembers the Top 10 movie flops of the decade.

Internet

• Cracked lampoons Twilight Saga: New Moon with a comic.
• Douglas Adams’ Bathtub Is For Sale on Ebay right now!
• The Toy Zone has a round-up of 11 Geeky Christmas Tree Ornaments and 16 Awesome Geek Cufflinks.

Literature

• Interview: The Dragon Page interviews J.C. Hutchins.
• Interview: Innsmouth Free Press interviews Daniel Heath Justice.
• Interview: Locus Magazine interviews Jack Skillingstead.
• Interview: NPR interviews Jeff & Ann VanderMeer.
• Here’s a list of 563 Persons Whose Work Enters Public Domain in 2010.
• Neil Gaiman Asks: Heard Any Good Books Lately?
• The New York Times picks 100 Notable Books of 2009.
• The Wall Street Journal names Five Best Historical Fiction Books.

Writing

• The Odyssey Workshop offers advice on Finding Reputable Literary Agents.
• Over at Salon.com, Jane Austen Doe spells out the facts of the job in The confessions of a semi-successful author.
• The third (and final) part of Jim Rubart’s series on Marketing Principles is now up.