Here are some of the various web pages that I visit on a frequent basis. The list will change as my tastes change so feel free to come back every once in a while and check out what I'm looking at.

Authors:

• Harlan Coben: Harlan writes the very funny Myron Bolitar series, and you haven't read them, then log off right now and go to your local bookstore and pick them up. He's absolutely hilarious and there's no excuse for not having read him.
• Rochelle Krich: Writer of the Jessie Drake series of police procedurals, and the author of several stand-alone suspense novels. I really like her books a lot and have been a fan since her first book, Where's Mommy Now? was published.
• Martha Lawrence: Author of the Elizabeth Chase detective series, a private investigator who also has a modicum of psychic ability. If you're expecting Psychic Hotline type stuff, forget it, you won't find it here. However, she's a great writer whose books keept getting better.
• Gayle Lynds: A woman who got her start writing the pulp Nick Carter novels and now writes international thrillers with a touch of espionage. I usually don't read this genre of novel, but I make an exception for Gayle Lynds as she is fantastic.
• Lynne Murray: The author of a series about a woman of size and substance - Josephine Fuller. I read the first book when it came out last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Glad to know there's more coming.
• Sue Grafton: One of the classics of the hypermodern mystery. I started reading Sue when her first alphabet mystery she wrote came out in the early eighties and am still reading her. She doesn't like it when I tell her I've been reading them since I was in junior high, though.
• Martin J. Smith: A mystery writer who delves into the subject of human memory. He has two novels out, both of which are worth reading. I met him once at the Redmond Towne Center Borders, and thoroughly enjoyed it.
• Dana Stabenow: Best know for her Kate Shugak series, she's started a new one as well about an Alaskan park ranger. Great local color and well-constructed characters you'll want to meet over and over.

Books:

• Advanced Book Exchange: Good place to find out of print stuff. A lot of book dealers use this to reach national or international customers. I've found some hard to find stuff through them.
• Amazon.com: Besides having lots of friends who work there, I use this all the time as a general book reference site and place to get new books. I'd avoid using them as an out of print search service since their success rate isn't terrific.
• Bookbrowser: This contains a listing of series in pretty much any genre you could want. I use it to get mystery listings and contribute information to it when applicable. It's a wonderfully useful tool. It also has other information such as bookstore listings.
• Levenger: A place to buy gifts for the book lover and serious reader. I enjoy browsing around their site just looking at the various things they have.

Comic Strips:

• PvP: The continuing story of a gaming magazine and the folks who work there. Lots of geek humor that's not so obscure that only the most die-hard will find them funny. If you like RobotMan or FoxTrot, you'll like PvP.
• Sluggy Freelance: Hard to describe this strip, other than it's sort of a soap opera but not like the Apartment 3G style of soap opera strip.
• User Friendly: a comic strip about life at an Internet Service Provider. I can tell you that having worked at one, the similarities are real close. It's also a lot of fun, and he has archives of all of his previous strips.

Games

• Alderac Entertainment Group: Publishers of Legend of the Five Rings (both the role-playing game and the card game), Doomtown and Warlord. I think they come up with excellent game mechanics and so far have liked pretty much every game they've made with the exception of the Dune card game which was too complicated for words.
• Eden Studios: Makers of the Witchcraft role-playing game. I've enjoyed the two books that have come out for this system so far and hope there will be many more. It's a great game world with some interesting mechanics.
• Pelican Accessories: Makers of lots of console video game accessories. I'm fond of them for making the Power Grip for GameBoy Color which makes it easier for me to hold. I have big hands, and the GameBoy Color just doesn't want to fit there sometimes.
• Pocket IGN: When gbcdojo closed, I thought I'd never see a good GameBoy site again that was informative yet uncluttered. Thankfully, IGN has put up their own site covering portable gaming, covering not only GameBoy, but Neo Geo Pocket and WonderSwan. Granted, there's usually more GameBoy news since that has the biggest game library. Still, it's a terrific site with new content daily.
• Steve Jackson Games: Publisher of GURPS and In Nomine as well as the card game classic Illuminati. I think they produce some of the best gaming material on the planet, but I'm biased.

Humor

• Computer Stupidities: If you've ever worked in a tech support department you'll understand this site. It's the usual stupid user stories type, but there's a lot of material with a minimum of extraneous stuff.
• The Dialectizer: Brought to you by the same people who brought you Computer Stupidities. Translate web pages into Moron, Cockney, Pig Latin, and other dialects. Very amusing stuff!
• TechTales: More tech support stories, but these have been dramatized for your pleasure. Updated weekly.
• Things People Said: Classic blunders and assaults on the English language. There are things you'll remember from classic net.humor files like the student paper bloopers and forest ranger gaffes, plus new material added every so often.

Journaling

• Exaclair: Distributor of journals, address books and other stationery items. I use one of their journals as my bound journal (I bought it initially because it had hieroglyphics on the front cover).
• LiveJournal: A website where you can keep your own on-line journal free of charge. You can get a paid account which gives you more features, but it isn't required. Several of my friends and I use this.
• Personal Journaling Magazine: A magazine dedicated to the form of the journal. Ideas on what kinds of journals to keep, writing prompts, and some new an interesting things to do with your journal. It also has notices of new journaling products so you can make sure you don't miss anything if you're a big journaler.

Logic Puzzles

• Conceptis Puzzles: A designer and publisher of the picture logic type of puzzles that I like to solve. They have a forum, on-line samples, a Java app that you can solve puzzles with and an tutorial on how to solve this kind of logic puzzle.
• Puzzler: A United Kingdom publisher of puzzle magazines including my favorite, "Logic Problems" and a magazine of all picture logic, called "Tsunami."

Music

• Christine Lavin: The folk music diva has her own page. If you haven't discovered Christine Lavin and you like folk music, then has your head been under a rock or something?
• The Duras Sisters: A trio of women from Phoenix who do three-part acapella music. They're also three of the best friends I've ever had.
• Greg Greenway: A folksinger I first heard of in college. He's still making albums and touring. If you haven't heard "Driving" or "She's Just Gone" then you should immediately pick up Greg's albums and listen.
• Puzzlebox: A group comprised of one man and two women from the Bay Area of California who sing a combination of folk and filk music. Their first album is finally available and is very good.
• Seattle Men's Chorus: The chorus I used to sing with. I still have friends in the chorus and I stay tangentially involved with them, but I don't perform with them anymore.
• Steve Macdonald: Another folk/filk performer. His rendition of "When I Was a Boy" is very funny. I've had the pleasure of meeting him, and if you get a chance to see him, do so. He's a great performer and very personable.
• The Washingtonians: The now defunct choir with a sense of humor. I don't know how long the web page will be up, but I wanted to keep the link as long as the web page is around.
• Yellow Tail Records: The fine folks who publish Uncle Bonsai, Electric Bonsai Band, and Mel Cooleys recordings. They also have Hilary Field (classical guitar) and Geisa Dutra (classical piano). I have everything they've produced.

Pens & Writing Instruments

• Colorado Pen Company: An all-inclusive web store that has too many brands of pen to count. Good for some general browsing of pen styles, with lots of nice pictures.
• Mont Blanc: The Rolls-Royce of writing instruments. Beautiful, function, and sometimes very expensive. They have a platinum pen that runs for almost $900.00 which in my opinion is a bit on the high side for a pen. But, boy, they are gorgeous pens.
• World Pen: Another all-inclusive web store. Their selection is slightly different from other web stores which is why it's also worth a look.

Rubber Stamping:

• Stamp Camp: They make a lot of neat food item stamps along with a ton of alphabets. I have several, as well as their Ouija board and set of small Scrabble tiles.