March 23, 2009 Links and Plugs

M is for Monday.

Interviews

• Sydney Writers Centre interviews Sean Williams.
• Alethea Kontis interviews J.F. Lewis.
• Matt Staggs interviews Clarion South’s Robert Hoge and Kate Eltham.
• Sci Fi Wire interviews Dave Howe on SyFy.
• MJ Hyland interviews Colm Toíbín.
• If You're Just Joining Us interviews Lou Anders (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Martin Latham on In Praise of the Rep.
• Jay Lake on Writing the Series.
• Sarah Brandel on Writing When You Don’t Wanna.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on The Prestige Distinguishes Magic From Illusion. Can You?
• Bookgeeks Author Panel on The Others.
• Mark Waid on What Matters and James A. Owen chimes in with Mark Waid Speaks Wise.
• Victoria Strauss on The Ultimate Queryfail.
• Rockblog roundtable on World-building for Short Stories!
• Fiction Matters on It’s Not a Story If It Doesn’t Have A Story and Five Common Grammar Errors as Illustrated by Zombies.
• N.K. Jemisin on Day Jobs.
• William Shunn on Story Collection Format.
• PJ Nunn on Eagles or turkeys - What sets an author apart?
• Janet Reid on Some Query Letter Fundamentals.
• Robert C Jones on Forensics 116: Crimson Clues.
• Janice Hardy on Know When to Hold 'Em.
• Robin Agnew on The Reading Habits of Men.
• Rachel Aaron on How I (actually) became a writer.
• Diana Rowland on Let’s talk about the ghetto.
• Mike Brotherton on Women Writing Hard Science Fiction.
• Graham Sleight on Any Human Heart.
• Locus Online Analyzes this year's Hugo Nominations.
• Jessica Faust on Paper v. Electronic.
• Peter Miller on How to say f*ck you in 140 characters.
• Kevin Church on A Rough Guide To Webcomics Made By Twitter Users. (Part Three).
• Kara Kovalchik on What Your Favorite Movies Were Almost Called.
• Yorkwriters on Sketch a Novel in an Hour Exercise.
• Steven Savile on Catharsis.
  

News

• 2009 Hugo Award Nominations.
• Here's a couple of alien photos.
• The Phantom Queen Awakes anthology cover and TOC.
• The Speculative Literature Foundation's Older Writers Grant.
• Grab some Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica wallpapers.
• Year's Best SF TOC.
• Nine Disability Groups Write Publishers about Kindle 2.
• Tony Pi, in lieu of his John W. Campbell nomination, makes some of his work available.
  

Now out in paperback, a short story collection from one of my favorite authors:

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant: And Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford.