April 17, 2009 Links and Plugs

Busy with work... have to rush, rush, rush!

Interviews

• John Kessel Interviews James Patrick Kelly Part Two (podcast).
• Robert Hood interviews Kaaron Warren.
• Marshall Payne interviews Camille Alexa.
• Sarah Monette Q&A 11.
• Jennifer Jensen interviews Daniel Abraham on Getting Published, Rough Drafts, the Writer’s Life and How to Find a Good Literary Agent.
• Alex Carr interviews Frank Cho.
• Bookspot Central interviews Sandra Seamans.

Advice/Articles

• N. K. Jemisin on Non-American Fantasy.
• David Steffen on What is "literary"?
• Maria Schneider on Does your partner support your writing goals?
• Sharon Wheeler on How to turn a crisis into a disaster.
• Justine Larbalestier on Books not earning out (updated).
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Illness.
• Mike Brotherton on Art and Science: Something Powerful in Common.
• Marie Brennan on How I write female characters.
• Thomas Sullivan on Making Love or Between the Covers (of a book).
• The Book Publicity Blog on Reading between the lines.
• Janice Hardy on Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave.
• Kristen O'Toole on How to Alienate Bloggers and Boost Book Sales.
• Douglas Cohen on Attention Artists.
• File 770 on Self-Publishing Not Necessarily a Bowl of Cherries.
• Cory Doctorow on My ebooks and DRM talk from O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing (video).
• Paul S. Kemp on Thoughts on writing Crosscurrent.
• Robin D. Laws on PDFed Up.
• Elaine Cunningham on How much is too much?
• Nicholas Clee on The Google settlement - what rights holders need to know.
• Jason Sizemore on Little Fish, Big Pond.
• Postmodernbarney on Uncomfortable Plot Summaries.
  

News

• The Shared Worlds Creative Writing Camp, 2009.
• Wanted: Your Stories of Disability Versus Copyright Law.
• Check out Innsmouth Free Press.
• Ideomancer Speculative Fiction Open to Submissions.
• If you lose your Amazon account, your Kindle loses functionality.

And here's an anthology from one of my favorite editors:

Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling