May 21, 2009 Links and Plugs

When it comes to positive news, books that arrived in the mail include The Best of Michael Moorcock (edited by John Davey with Jeff & Ann VanderMeer), Spotted Lily (by Anna Tambour), and Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & (also by Anna Tambour).

Also check out my interview with Ian McDonald which seems apt for this week's Fen of Color.

Interviews

• The Nebula Awards interviews Ian McDonald.
• Joshua Palmatier introduces Maria V. Snyder.
• Sarah Monette Q&A 30.
• Dave Brendon interviews Brian Sanderson.
  

Advice/Articles

• John Ottinger III and Diana Pharaoh Francis has set up The Speculative Fiction Book Reviewer's Database.
• SF Signal on The Perfect SF/F/H Books to Give to People Who Don't Read SF/F/H.
• Aliette de Bodard on Nifty Writing Software.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on Writers Should Not Blog About Writing.
• Robert G. Picard on Why Journalists Deserve Low Pay.
• Kat Meyer on Kindle Publishing for Blogs: A Double-Edged Sword for Bookish Bloggers?
• Margaret Ronald on Revenge of the puppies and donuts.
• Justine Larbalestier on The Goodness of Bad Reviews.
• John Rogers on Writing: The Sequence Shuffle.
• Mike Brotherton on Portrait of the Writer as a Pick-Up Artist.
• David B. Coe on Are Our Books Really Children? And If So, Whose Children…?
• The Book Publicity Blog on For authors on book tour, don’t forget your …
  

News

• This month's Harper Magazine features short science fiction.

Check out this magazine that just got released:

Sybil's Garage No. 6