October 7, 2008 Links and Plugs

Here are some things to keep you preoccupied:

• BookEnds, LLC has literary agent Jessica Faust talk about The Way I Read [queries and submissions].
• In the event that you're working on a novel, The Agony Column has a podcast feature interview: Writing 101, Lesson 1: Laurie R. King on Revising a Novel.
• Dean Wesley Smith discusses finding First Readers and what they are.
• Missed Archon? Rich Horton brings us up to speed: Day (1, 2).
• Erik Mona talks about pulp writer Henry Kuttner (1, 2).
• Steve Berman has some recommended reads for Halloween from Lethe Press and urges you to buy them from Giovanni's Room, the second oldest gay bookstore in the US.
• Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers.
• Social Book networks: connecting writers to readers.
• Submission guidelines for The Gun: Noisy Tales of the Weird South.
• Debate: God vs. Devil with Mike Allen as the latter.
• Newsarama covers the TV adaptation of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series, Legend of the Seeker as well as an interview with Chris Yost, writer for the upcoming comic adaptation of Ender's Game.
• Dr. Roundbottom has a new guest.

And here are some recently-released or upcoming books:

Predator: South China Sea by Jeff Vandermeer

The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond by Jeffrey Ford

The Hiss of Escaping Air by Christopher Golden