P.S.
Couple of things I forgot:

I've been asked by the British Fantasy Society to tell you about its 2006 Horror Calendar, to which various well-known writers and artists have contributed text and artwork based on famous horror tropes. My bit is an excerpt from Crown of Thorns illustrating "The Dead." Other contributors include (text) Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, John Connolly, Christopher Fowler, Simon Clark, Muriel Gray, Stephen Gallagher, Kelley Armstrong, Stephen Laws, and Graham Masterton; (artwork) James Ryman, Mike Bohatch, Lew Lehrman, Michael Ian Bateson, David Anthony Magitis, Ian Simmons, Russell Dickerson, Lizzy Shumate, Lara Bandilla, Michelle Blessemaille, Bob Covington, and Paul Campion. They are expecting it to sell out quickly, so preorder soon if you want one.

TWITCHER (n): an obsessive list-keeping birder who goes after rare birds found by other people. Twitchers might cross half the country overnight to see one tatty brown thing sitting half a mile away on a bleak expanse of mud. Twitchers invariably have huge lists that only impress other twitchers. Surprisingly, they are not always good at identifying birds, because they leave all that tedious business to other birders. From twitcher you also get the verb to twitch, to go out with the deliberate intent of seeing one particular rarity you've been told about, and you don't need to be a dedicated twitcher to do this.

I've been birding for about three and a half years now, but yesterday was the first time I have ever twitched.