October 2, 2009 Links and Plugs

Thanks to Jeff and Jeff (and everyone else who tweeted, emailed, etc.) for linking to my post on Typhoon Ondoy and how you can help. There's lots of grass-roots efforts and it warms the heart that fandom and the speculative fiction community is being socially active in this instance.

And *sniff* *sniff* it's the last issue of Farrago's Wainscot. Innsmouth Free Press also released their Fall 2009 Fiction Issue. Since it's Support Our 'Zines Day, you might want to donate/purchase StarShipSofa Stories.

Interviews

• Dead Robots Society interviews Juliet Ulman (podcast).
• Annalee Newitz interviews Cory Doctorow.
• Writing Raw interviews Lavie Tidhar (PDF).
• Stargazer's World interviews Robin D. Laws.
• Jocelynn Drake interviews Vicki Pettersson.
• Jason Henninger interviews Steamcon Vice Chair Diana Vick.
• Tor/Forge Blog interviews Harriet McDougal and Brandon Sanderson (video).
• Morning Media Menu interviews Brandon Sanderson (podcast).
• Bitten by Books interviews Lynsay Sands.
• SF Site interviews Mark Chadbourn.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews David Anthony Durham.
• Stomping on Yeti interviews Tim Pratt.
• Audio Visual Podcast interviews Cory Doctorow.
  

Advice/Articles

• Warren Ellis on SF MAGAZINES: It’s Not My Fault.
• CroSF on Ivana, the “Croatian Tolkien”.
• Victoria Strauss on Google Book Search Settlement Fairness Hearing Adjourned.
• Spontaneous Derivation on A Brief Drunken Comment on the Cost of Making Ebooks.
• Annalee Newitz on Jonathan Lethem's Crazy Friendship With Philip K. Dick.
• William Kates on 50 Years Later, 'Twilight Zone' Still Intrigues.
• Josh Jasper on It's That Special Month For Horror Fiction.
• Hal Duncan on Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains.
• L Jagi Lamplighter on Evoking the Desired Response.
• Margaret Ronald on Laughing at the Magic.
• NK Jemisin on Sidelines.
• Sharon Wheeler on Awards kerfuffle.
• Megan Kurashige on why yes, Virginia, there really is still censorship.
• Justine Larbalestier on The Advantages of Being a White Writer.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: When to Return to Your Day Job.
• Matt Mikalatos on Embracing Your Inner Weird.
• The Book Publicity Blog on Book tours for the 21st century.
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: Arc Enemy.
• Nicola Morgan on The Survival of the Fittest.
• Nathan Bransford on Previously Published Authors.
• Pimp My Novel on Going Rogue & the New York Bubble.
• The Rejectionist on Rachel Zoe Wants to Help You Write A Novel.
• Kassia Krozser on That’s When I Reach for My Revolver.
  

News

• Danielle Steel, the PA and the missing $2.7m no one noticed.
• Leslie What nominated for Oregon Book Award.
• Steampunk Month on Tor.com.

Shouldn't really surprise people that I'm plugging:

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