December 11, 2009 Links and Plugs

Rose Fox has an interesting discussion over at Genreville: Publishers Struggle to Wake Up from the E-Book Nightmare.

Interviews

• Fantasy Magazine interviews Angela Slatter.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Jill Roberts.
• Info Design interviews Richard Dansky (PDF).

Advice/Articles

• Rich Horton's Summary: Fantasy Magazine 2009.
• Satellite Internet on Ten Ways Space Travel Isn’t Like Television or the Movies.
• Nick Mamatas on Just to make this very clear.
• Wheatland Press on The Short Fiction for Short Pay Flapperooni.
• Holly Black on The Bad Example.
• Sean Wallace on The New Yorker Takes Online Submissions???
• Dean Wesley Smith on Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Writing is Hard.
• Mark Charan Newton on The Aftermath.
• C.L. Anderson on The Writing Life - Why?
• Jasson Henninger on Cthulhu in a jar.
• Lou Anders on Matte vs Gloss.
• Cory Doctorow on With a Little Help: Can You Hear Me Now?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Negotiation Part Two.
• Mike Brotherton on Why was Snape such a Bad Teacher?!
• Juliette Wade on Culture is what we DO.
• Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap.
• Toys, Comics, Sequels, Remakes - John Scalzi Charts SciFi's Box Office Success in the '00s.
• Nathan Bransford on Should Publishers Delay E-book Releases?
  

News

• Paul Di Filippo reviews 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom.
• Joshua Palmatier has Holiday Special Offers.
• Nielsen folds Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews.
• RIP Janet Fox.

You could always try this out for military/gritty fantasy fans:

Noonshade by James Barclay