September 25, 2009 Links and Plugs

Guys and gals, here's one piece of advice when submitting: don't call magazines you submit to"low-level publications" after they reject your story. If that's what you honestly felt, why submit to them in the first place?

Interviews

• SciFiGuy.Ca interviews Jocelynn Drake.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Jesse Bullington.
• Rae Bryant interviews Berrien Henderson.
• Catherine Bollinger interviews James Maxey.
• National Post profiles Robert J. Sawyer.
• Locus Magazine interviews Larry Niven.
  

Advice/Articles

• John Crowley on In the Midst of Death.
• Jack Haringa on THAT Argument.
• Aliette de Bodard on Female protagonists in historical fantasy.
• Josh Jasper on The Man is Always Putting us Down.
• Levar Burton on My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over (it's The Onion).
• Mashable on How To:  Launch Your Own Indie Journalism Site.
• Sharon Wheeler on The dilemma of review copies.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Failure.
• Rachelle Gardner on Is Your MC Proactive or Reactive?
• Jim C Hines on Writers and Depression.
• The Book Publicity Blog on How book publicists can be Trust Agents.
• Janice Hardy on You've Got to Have Friends.
• John Scalzi on YBF, PoD and Other Such Acronyms.
• Nicola Morgan on Dealing With Journalists.
• Nathan Bransford on Will the Piracy Threat Resolve Itself?
  

News

• SFWA increases support for AboutSF.
• The Long-Lost and Forgotten Fantasy Magazine 7.

Plugged this before but it's for charity (more info here), so here's a reminder:

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