April 6, 2009 Links and Plugs

It's a holiday today in the Philippines but there's much work to do (books to read and review, authors to interview, etc.).

Advice/Articles

• Angela Slatter On Reviewing and Stray Thoughts on Long Sentences.
• Shawn Speakman on Finishing the First Draft.
• Charlie Jane Anders on What's The Difference Between Story And Plot?
• Sarah Monette on publishing, series, fantasy, an announcement of a personal nature, and a big helping of wtf.
• Aliette de Bodard on Writing in a foreign language, or why I find it hard to discuss SF in French.
• Jim C. Hines on How to Write a Bestseller (Simon Green).
• Rachel Caine Says Divas Rock.
• Nick Mamatas on A Career In Thrashing Around All Night.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Evil Monkey on the Writer “Growth Cycle” and Knowing When Not to Write.
• Hooks & Books on Discussing Rhysling Nominations.
• Rose Lemberg on Some reasons why my academic peers and students could figure out I am a writer.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on The Top Ten Evil Queens of Fantasy.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch's latest column for IRoSF. Sean Wallace responds.
• Brenda Cooper on Selling.
• Joshua Benton on Why young reporters need to get past their institutional mindsets; or, how reporters are like priests.
• David Levine on Taking out the aliens, and other writing news.
• Nicholas Kaufmann on Another Kind of J-Horror.
• Jennifer Jackson on letters from the query wars.
• Odyssey Workshop on Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman discussing the many differences between writing a novel and writing a short story (podcast).
• The Cimmerian on Jung at Heart.
• Theo on The difficulty of SF vis-a-vis F.
• Sarah Zettel on The National Pastime.
• John Scalzi on Twitter and Writing Short Bits.
• Paul Kincaid on What You Won't Read.
• Juliette Wade on Declines in Technology.
• Gerard Houarner on Another POV on Characters.
• Diana Pharaoh Francis on The Insanity of a Writer (one of them anyway).
• Alma Alexander on The First Time.
• Nnedi Okorafor on My report on the Octavia Butler Symposium/My first trip to New York.
• Janet Reid on #agent fail at Bookends--glad I had my brolly up! and Last word on #agentfail (I think!).
• PJ Nunn on What's a Publicist Worth?
  
• Benjamin A. Plotinsky on How Science Fiction Found Religion.
• Editorial Anonymous on Self-Publishing and Self-Editing.
  
• Phyllis Irene Radford on Measuring Failure.
• Rachel Aaron on Rebel Tales.
• Diana Rowland on More Indecision.
  

News

• Odyssey application deadline on April 8.
• Video of Nicholas Kaufmann reading from X: The Erotic Treasury.
• Google’s Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged.
• British Fantasy Awards Longlist.
• Pyr's Fall Winter 2009 catalog.
• The New York Times on Is This the Future of the Digital Book?
• Asian Women Carnival #1.
• Vote for the Spinetingler Awards.

Here's something from Tachyon Publications:

The Good Humor Man by Andrew Fox