May 4, 2009 Links and Plugs

In terms of plugging space, my friends over at Pulp Gamer informed me that they have an audio book out, Smoky Mountain Horrors by Weston Ochse.

Also, been spreading this around: The Great Book Blockade of 2009 by Robin Hemley (despite it being McSweeney's, it's not satire).

Interviews

• Memesis Virtualis interviews Marc Gascoigne (Angry Robot Books).
• Nossa Morte interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Mark Charan Newton.
• SF Site has some interviews with Liam Sharp, Alex Irvine, and John Higgins.
• Stephen Hunt interviews Sheri S. Tepper.
• Charles E. Gannon interviews Catherine Asaro and Hayim Ani.
• Odyssey Workshop just published the lecture of Allen M. Steele (podcast).
• Locus Magazine interviews Ekaterina Sedia (excerpts).
• Bookspot Central interviews Kieran Shea and Jake Hinkson.
• GalleyCat has a video of James Lee Burke.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on Guesswork & Archaeology & Virgil (video).
• Michael J. Vaughn interviews Amy Edelman of IndieReader.
  

Advice/Articles

• Mary Robinette Kowal on The Ten Best Dragon Breeds in Fantasy.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on 5 Books on Writing and Science Fiction That Made Me a Better Writer.
• Will Ludwigsen on They've Got Issues One Possible Future for Genre Short Fiction.
• Mind Meld Make-Up Test with Geoff Ryman.
• John C. Wright on What SF is best for non-SF readers?
• Degree Directory on 10 Ways to Become a Better Writer.
• Deborah Davidson on Translating Across Cultures, Tricky Spots.
• Tweet the Meat on Twitter Literary Zines.
• Robin Hemley on The Great Book Blockade of 2009.
• Maureen Clements on The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed.
• David A. Rozansky on Does Recession Hit Midlist Authors Harder?
• Aliette de Bodard has links to the Pacific Asia Museum.
• Jason Sizemore on Memo to Myself: Do the Dumb Things I Gotta to Do, Touch the Puppet Head.
• Megan Messinger on Backpacking Through Fantasyland.
• Bill Ward on A Life of Ideas.
• Rachel Aaron on Beating back blocks with knowledge!
• Diana Rowland on Writing Neurotica.
• PJ Nunn on Planning a Book Tour on the Cheap.
• Robin Agnew on What's So Foreign?
• Alison Janssen on Print Runs.
• Mike Brotherton on Wider World Realizing Orson Scott Card is Hateful and Crazy.
• Diana Pharaoh Francis on Yet More on Editing and Revision.
• Melanie and Steve Rasnic Tem on The Uses of Revision.
• Janice Hardy on Do We Have A Future Together?
  

News

• Tim Pratt is editing a reprint anthology entitled Sympathy for the Devil. Recommend some stories!
• Cemetery Dance has a Buy One Book, Get One Free promo.
• Suvudu has three free eBooks added to its library.
• Merck Makes Phony Peer-Review Journal.
• Race and Ethnicity in Fandom (Summer 2011) is open to submissions.
• Jeremiah Tolbert has Questions about Podcasts, Some Escape Pod News.
• Openly gay woman chosen as UK poet laureate.
• Apex Book Company has some promos: Jennifer Pelland's Unwelcome Bodies sale and Sarah M. Harvey's Convent of the Pure giveaway.
• Check out the Toronto Diaspora Dialogues: summer writing mentorship (oooh, Nalo Hopkinson!).
• Janet and the Mysterious Creature contest.
• Bookspot Central has a contest: A Dozen Small Beers - 12 books!
• Panverse Publishing is looking for novellas!

Just got released the other day:

Clarkesworld Magazine #32