July 20, 2010 Links and Plugs

For the record, I've been unproductive lately because this is the 2nd week wherein I'm half-blind, due to my right eye tearing up every five minutes.

Interviews

• Jennifer Brozek interviews Ari Marmell.
  
• Greenabsinthia interviews Gail Carriger.
• Big Think interviews Catherine Asaro (video).
• Murder by the Blog interviews Gail Carriger.
• Sybil's Garage spotlights Mercurio D. Rivera.
• If You're Just Joining Us interviews Paul Di Filippo (podcast).
• Suvudu On Air interviews Tim Kring (podcast).
• Angela Slatter interviews Tansy Rayner Roberts.
  

Advice/Articles

• Lisa Shearin on Part 2 of “5 things I’ve learned about writing” — You gotta want it BAD.
• Genevieve Valentine on Launchpad Workshop Recap: Four Fun Things About the Universe.
• Andrew Liptak on ReaderCon Panel Recap: “How I Wrote The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”.
• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing Nowadays–Writing Smackdown, Part 2.
• Stroppy Author on How to read a publishing contract (18).
• Janice Hardy on Where Plots Go Astray.
• Philip Athans on Robot is the New Vampire.
• Jason Sanford on The Bad Writer's Tripping Point.
• Pimp My Novel on A Taxing Profession.
  

News

• Daniel A. Rabuzzi's The Choir Boats free download for July.
• 2009 Sky Award Winners.
• Swiss bank to lift lid on hidden Kafka works.

Dark and Story Knights edited by P.N. Elrod