August 19, 2009 Links and Plugs

On the home front, two Filipino spec fic authors will be appearing in Cantaraville next year! (While you're at it, check the sampler which includes a story from the talented John Grant.)

And congrats to the finalists of the 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.

Also check out The Outer Alliance, SF/F Writers for LGBT Advocacy.

Interviews

• The Nebula Awards interviews Charles Coleman Finlay.
• Randolph Carter interviews Alex Bledsoe.
  

Advice/Articles

• Joshua Palmatier on How to Plan a Series.
• Matt Staggs on A Greenpunk Manifesto.
• Strange Horizons on The fund drive and our annual budget.
• Nadia Bulkin on it's ok to suck at science (fiction).
• Cory Doctorow on Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers.
• Larry Nolen on A fantasy list for those who don't want to stop at second base, but who'd rather hit a grand slam and then score continuously or something.
• William Shunn on Labeling scenes within a chapter.
• David Forbes on All Tomorrows: The Birthgrave.
• Rachelle Gardner on Should You Go to a Writers' Conference?
• Diana Pharaoh Francis on Serializing a Novel.
• Kate Elliott on Field of Vision.
• The Book Publicity Blog on How to work more efficiently in publishing.
• Janice Hardy on Query Week: Step Two: Now, How Do I Make This Sound Better?
• Pimp My Novel on Genre-Specific Sales, Part 6 of 8: Historical Fiction.
• The Intern on Does This Count As Assault?
  

News

• 2009 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction.
• Welcome The Outer Alliance, SF/F Writers for LGBT Advocacy.
• 2009 WSFS Business Meeting Report.
• World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Winners.
• Space collection sold at auction.

And from Subterranean:

Subterranean Summer 2009