March 8, 2010 Links and Plugs

Renovations on the house start this week and my allergies are acting up from packing all my books (*sniff* *sniff* no one should go to the torture of forcing to categorize their books in boxes!). Which also means a lack of sleep for me as I'm sick and have trouble breathing.

Interviews

• StarShipSofa interviews Alastair Reynolds and Cheryl Morgan (podcast).
• The Comics Reporter interviews Tom De Haven.
• Michael A. Ventrella interviews Lawrence Watt-Evans.
• Odyssey Podcasts with Carrie Vaughn.
• Matt Staggs interviews Marjorie M. Liu and Melissa Heidrich.
• Maggie MacAlpine interviews Margo Lanagan.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Teri Hall.
• Dead Robots Society interviews J.C. Hutchins and J. Daniel Sawyer (podcast).
• The Short Review interviews Geoff Ryman.
  

Advice/Articles

• Victoria Strauss on The Scam of Private Label Rights Article.
• Gord Sellar on Outsider Writing.
• Rich Horton's Summary: Innsmouth Free Press, 2009.
• Tamara Sellman on Everything I’ve learned about writing this year I’ve relearned by watching the Olympics [2, 3].
• Rachel Aaron on Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel.
• Phyllis Irene Radford on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Ignore Deadlines.
• Sherwood Smith on Writing and Young Adult Books.
• Jonathan Strahan on For writers: Manage your digital assets!
  

News

• Lightspeed Magazine, June 2010 Table of Contents.
• Sprawl: Suburban Tales of Fantasy Table of Contents.
• New Australian SpecFic podcast, Galactic Suburbia.
• Steampunk Reloaded…Already Reloaded!!
• 2009 Australian Shadows Award finalists.
• Introductory offers on Stanza Press poetry, new Six-of-the-Best bargain bundles, Tomorrow Revisited and many, many more…
• The Loving Dead Online Serial Coming Soon.
• Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward: Guest-blogging on Booklifenow This Week.

Currently reading:

Warriors edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois