December 24, 2008 Links and Plugs

Last day of work but I suspect I'll be in for the holidays. Merry Christmas! (Updates will be intermittent over the break... but probably not.)

• You know one guy I'd love to interview? Ted Chiang. That doesn't mean I can't appreciate someone else's interview with him over at the Nebula Awards.
• Man, there's a couple of awesome interviews that I'm not doing. Check out Richard Dansky's Five for Writing with James Lowder and those are some great answers.
• Since Lowder does touch upon tie-in fiction, Larry has a blog entry on an outsider's perspective on some recent media tie-in books.
  
• Going back to the Nebulas, you might want to check out the Preliminary Qualifiers.
• The New York Times on The Buzzwords of 2008.
• John August on Money 101 for Screenwriters.
• Lou Anders asks: "What it is that fantasy does - beyond the entertainment/intellectual value that all literature bequeaths - that is unique to its form?"
• The anti-read list: 10 Books Not to Read Before You Die.
• About.com's 2008 Best New Manga.
• Paul Tremblay's Best of '08... So Far.
• Matt Forbeck on Noncompulsive Writing.
• Tobias Buckell on Borders and Andrew Wheeler responds.
• A couple of genre books are making it to the iPhone.
• Eeek. The Man Booker Prize had funds linked to the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Here's some fanzine love:

Argentus 2008