October 30, 2009 Links and Plugs

Running late again. Will try to lay low next week as my new glasses haven't arrived yet and it's a pain in the ass reading (on the monitor or otherwise) when there's an imbalance in your eyes. That and I have a stye.

Interviews

• Center for the Art of Translation interviews Natasha Wimmer (translator of Robert Bolano) (podcast). (via Fabio Fernandes)
• If You're Just Joining Us interviews Cherie Priest (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Eric Simons (podcast).
• The Dragon Page interviews Tom Lloyd (podcast).
• The Publishing Point interviews Cory Doctorow (video).
• Diet Soap Podcast interviews Mark Teppo. (via Marty Halpern)
• Stomping on Yeti interviews Alan de Niro. (via Jedediah Berry)
• The World in a Satin Bag interviews David Marusek.
• Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury (video).
• John Scalzi profiles Diana Pharaoh Francis.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Hank Schwaeble.

Advice/Articles

• Brain Me Up on Maybe Science Fiction is Dying, But if So, the Er is as Crowded and Raucous as that Cantina in Star Wars.
• Jason Sanford on Circulation of online SF/F/H magazines. (via Kaolin Fire)
• The Washington Post asks various authors on What Story Scares The Hell Out of You? (via Angela Slatter)
• The World SF News Blog on New Zealand Speculative Fiction Blogging Week.
• Barbara A. Barnett on How Being a Theater Geek Has Improved My Writing. (via Marshall Payne)
• Strange Ink has an Alternate Proposal (for NaNoWriMo). (via Ellen Kushner)
• Mur Lafferty on Belief.
• C.L. Anderson on The Writing Life: Reality.
• Ying Compestine On Becoming a Hungry Ghost.
• Edward M. Lerner on Just slightly ahead of our time.
• Gary Gibson on An open letter to those terrified of e-piracy.
• Margaret Ronald on Aural Stories.
• N.K. Jemisin on It’s never “just a story”.
• Charlie Stross on How habitable is the Earth?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Success Part Four.
• Matilda McCloud on Avoiding On-the-Nose Writing.
• Mur Lafferty on I Am Not Afraid, Dammit!
• Janice Hardy on Flipping Out.
• John Scalzi on Stupid Ideas Are Still Stupid Even When Amazon Does Them.
• Nathan Bransford on The Reverse Snobbery of Low Literary Aspirations.
• Pat's Fantasy Hotlist on Why no love among the SFF fandom???

News

• Paul Di Filippo reviews The Year of the Flood.
• Macmillan US opens up new front in battle over e-book royalty rates. (via Eric Rosenfield)
• Here, There Be Dragons is free until 11/9.
• New issue of Abyss & Apex Magazine.
• TTA Press has a preview of Interzone #225.
• Two-Book US Rights deal for British Novelist.

And from classy author/artist James Owen:

The Shadow Dragons by James A. Owen