That will teach me for not checking my normal array of sites in the morning--work is busy what can I say--but ICv2 reports that Wizards is indeed annoucing 4.0 today. The new core books will be out in a year but oddly enough only one a month so you have to wait until July to get all three.

Over on the D&D site there's a countdown for a 4dventure that has the internet up in storm. Is this the long rumored, conspired D&D 4.0? It's it a countdown to a new setting? Or just someone at Wizards joking with us?

MadDrJeffe interviews author Candice Ransom & editor Stacy Whitman of Mirrorstone Books as they discuss the young reader's book series "Time Spies" at the American Librarian Association's Convention.

ICv2 reported Wizard of the Coast's early 2008 D&D and Starwars products yesterday and one can help but fell a little underwheilmd, aside from an adventure,Keep on the Shadowfell we're getting Worlds and Monsters which is a behind the scenese look at creating D&D products and Eberron Survival Guide which is a coloring book picture book that shows off various locals of the Ebberon world. Ebberon is also getting City of Stormreach which if like Sharn could be a very good suppliment, however if it turns out to be like Cityscape, which was just a pale rip-off of Sharn you can pass this one up.