• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.

• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, coming in July.”

• Daniel Olivas reviews The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, a new collection by 25 emerging poets. “…a compelling and exhilarating addition to Latino letters,” he says.

• DeanKoontz.com runs a contest through YouTube inviting readers to produce the best trailer for the Newport Beach author’s new thriller, The Good Guy. Sixty people take the challenge.

• Fresno journalist and author Mark Arax has left the Los Angeles Times, but not California’s Great Central Valley. “I have to keep writing about this place,” he says. “It’s a mystery to me. I’m still trying to figure it out.”