September 8, 2009 Links and Plugs

Apparently, I'm shortlisted for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Award under the Best Speculative Fiction Blog category. You can vote here (I guess Neil Gaiman will win the Best Published Author Blog category?).

And for all you zines, be sure to sign up with Damien G Walter's Zine Link-Up Meme.

Also, help out Jeanne Robinson, wife of Spider Robinson, who needs funds for chemotherapy.

Interviews

• Wizards of the Coast interviews James Wyatt (video).
• Entertainment Weekly interviews Neil Gaiman.
• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Keith R.A. DeCandido.
• Stomping on Yeti interviews Elizabeth Bear.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Matthew Rotundo, Jordan Lapp, Lou Anders (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• David de Beer on The Goodkind Appeal.
• James Gurney on Why I Wrote Imaginative Realism.
• Jim C Hines on 20 Neil Gaiman Facts.
• Wendy Loggia on Reasons Why Your Manuscript Got Rejected.
• Jenna Black on The Myth of Luck.
• 1889 On Formats and Friction.
• Shawn Speakman on The Sticky Plot Point.
• Soyka on Conspiracy Theory: The Plot Against Plot.
• David Milofsky on Who Will Write the Future?
  

News

• Photos of Edmond Hamilton Day, July 18, 2009 in Kinsman, Ohio.

Yay, it's finally listed on Amazon:

Japanese Dreams: Fantasies, Fictions & Fairytales edited by Sean Wallace