Cross Your Fingers For George R.R. Martin

I'm noodling around with a best-of-2007 post that I hope will be up in the next few days, but in the meantime I wanted to summarize all the terrible news this month about some of my favourite authors:

Terry Pratchett (see the December 11th entry)
William Strauss
George MacDonald Fraser

Seriously. We need more of people like this, not less.