October 2 Links and Plugs

I'm currently suffering from a throat so full of phlegm that I'm using them to blow bubbles like bubble gum. Thankfully, I have no pictures. Anyway, here are some links:

• SF Signal's Mind Meld: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? - I got to participate!
• Marshall Payne interviews M. K. Hobson at The Fix.
• Check out Lone Star Stories's latest issue!
• Paul Tremblay is awesome. Check out his Chizine-winning fiction, The Blog at the End of the World.
• Terra Incognita is open for submissions.
• Wait, you mean you're not yet a member of the Dr. Roundbottom Foundation? Check out these membership packages.
• Experienced writers speak: Steve Berman on Novels, first chapters, and the author-reader pact and David de Beer on How important is one sentence?

And here are the book plugs:

Sly Mongoose by Tobias S. Buckell

The Long Look by Richard Parks

Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales by Kenneth Hite