We’re more than excited to welcome a writer who can give us the most masterful creeps, Kelly Link, to Utopian.net hosting.

Kelly’s new book, Pretty Monsters — Link’s first Young Adult work – will be published by Viking on October 2nd.

Our friend and Utopian.net customer Gavin Grant and his Small Beer Press have been in the vanguard of open publishing, with the well-respected indy imprint releasing several books in dual paper- and free-electronic- editions. The latest Creative Commons-licensed masterpiece of speculative fiction from Small Beer Press is John Kessel’s The Baum Plan for Financial Success. (Link via Boing Boing.)