Faint of Butt -- MicroHorror

Faint of Butt (User #18128) runs the MicroHorror website which is a repository for good horror microfiction, "stories no longer than 666 words." Of particular note are the contests (2007, 2008) and the microhorror pieces by Faint of Butt (aka Nathan Rosen) himself.

Allen Salkin -- AllenSalkin

AllenSalkin (User #60254) has been a MeFite since 2007 and made his first comment today! His eponymous website has a cute photo of him, his mom's blog, some Salkin geneaology and links to all the stuff he's written for the New York Times.

Christopher L. Jorgensen—jackassletters.com

cjorgensen (user #59453) follows in the same great tradition as Lazlo Toth, satirically typing and mailing actual letters in an enthusiastic, friendly persona. Who do these letters go to? Corporations, cultural icons, pills, the Care Bears... and many more. The site is intended to explore the ensuing correspondences, but it seems he gets way fewer replies than Lazlo Toth ever did. Still, cjorgensen's initial volleys are pretty funny.

cstross—Charlie's Diary

cstross (User #20966) is the username of the SF writer Charlie Stross. His mefi page points to a blog that hasn't been updated in a year, but that's just because he forgot to update his profile to point to his new blog url. His Published Fiction page points to a lot of free stories on the web, and if you poke around you can get to the site for his novel Accelerando!, where you can download that whole novel for free.

I've read a bunch of Stross stories, and two of his novels. The first (Singularity Sky) I picked up off a sale rack in Brussels on a whim, and I loved reading such an excellent book about which I had known nothing.

jennydiski—Jenny Diski

jennydiski (User #56747) is a British author who has a pretty standard author's website. It's well designed and shows the many praises she has received for her eight novels and several books of non-fiction. The Recent Journalism section has a couple of book reviews to read, including one of a biography of Martha Freud, and there are a few interviews, too. It's neat that she's a Mefite.

(She also happens to live with Ian Patterson, whose translation of Finding Time Again is fabulous, and made my last reading of Proust more fun.)

YoBananaBoy--patrick

YoBananaBoy (User #42191) has a website that claims that "every bit is fiction". It's split into categories that make this seem true: reading, memorize, fiveminutequickhit &c, but the presence of the people in the writing is so real, so true-seeming, that I was sure it was a personal blog until I got to the tagline.

"Don’t tell someone to fuck off if you can’t live with the consequences," it tells me, and that seems pretty true to me.

headspace -- Making Stuff Up for a Living

headspace (user#8924) is a published author and screenwriter who has written a story that was nominated for this year's Pushcart Prize. She has an attractive blog with short pithy posts and long serious posts. I like her opinions on fair use and her list of books she has checked out from the library.

dobbs—Wrestle the Future to the Fucking Ground

dobbs's (User #13877) site is great. The splash page is a bit intimidating, demanding an email address, but the links at the top (check WTF? to figure out WTF) lead to an explanation and some archived writings from what turns out to be a splendid email list. After reading bits from the archives (I liked I'm on Fire, and check out Untitled #6) I signed up for the list. The writing from his Victory Shag project is also quite good: I don't want to know if this is truth or fiction, but it's a hell of a story. And, to top it all off, the music link has a great set of songs available. I hadn't heard The Handsome Family before, but after reading the Sally Timms story, I had to hear, and they're great!