August 31, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Peter Orullian interviews Daniel Abraham.
• The Outer Alliance interviews Karen Romanko.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Sybil's Garage (podcast).
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Rose Fox.
• Betsy Mitchell interviews Harry Connolly.
• Angela Slatter interviews Jeffrey Ford and Alisa Krasnostein.
• Cory Doctorow on Doctorow's First Law.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Mark Van Name.
  

Advice/Articles

• Darin Bradley on Noise, the Apocalypse, and You.
• Ryan Britt on I Can Has Ray Gunz! Cat-People in Science Fiction.
• Matthew David Surridge on Worlds Within Worlds: The First Heroic Fantasy (Part I).
• Mike Brotherton on Where is the Science Fiction Writer’s Promised Land?
• Rachelle Gardner on Writing Online Book Reviews.
• Richard Dansky on Heresy! Blasphemy! Rah Rah Rah!
• Alma Alexander on 10 Authorial Confessions.
• Stroppy Author on How to read a publishing contract (20).
  

News

• Indigenousfuturisms Writing Contest $1000 Prize.
• How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon.
• Black Library announces Hammer and Bolter.
• Crossed Genres Year One – Half off through Saturday! ($2.50 PDF, $5 print!).

Bull Spec #2

August 27, 2010 Links and Plugs

Holiday on Monday so might not have updates then.

Interviews

• William Sullivan interviews Rachel Swirsky.
• Suvudu video of Terry Brooks.
• Angela Slatter interviews Jack Dann.
  

Advice/Articles

• Gerald M. Weinberg on Why Do I Earn So Much as a Writer?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The Nook Inspiration.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave.
• Pimp My Novel on Why This is a Returnable Business.
  

News

• GUD Issue 5 on Sale for the first time!

Dragons Lure edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, Jennifer Ross, and Jeffrey Lyman

August 26, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Book Lovers Inc. interviews Gail Carriger.
• John Ottinger III interviews Kij Johnson.
  
• Gail Z. Martin interviews Scott Sigler and Judith Briles (podcast).
• Locus interviews Charlie Jane Anders.
• The Rejectionist interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
• Gregory Manches interviews Dave Stewart.
• Suvudu Terry Brooks & Peter V. Brett Chat.
• Angela Slatter interviews Alan Baxter and Kim Wilkins.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Matthew Hughes.
• I Should Be Writing interviews David Williams (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer on Shared Worlds: Zombies, Alien Babies, and Book Recommendations from Students.
  
• P.N. Elrod on Always read the contract.
• The Little Red Reviewer on Let’s talk about manga.
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday Golden Oldie: Preposition Patrol.
  

News

• Norilana Books - 4th Anniversary Non-Sale Sale!

Skiffy and Mimesis: More Best of ASFR: Australian SF Review selected by Damien Broderick

August 25, 2010 Links and Plugs

Congrats to the 2009 World Fantasy Awards Nominees.

Interviews

• Angela Slatter interviews Amal El-Mohtar.
  
• Matthew Cheney interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews some of the 2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees.
  
• The Abaddon & Solaris Books Podcast interviews Ian Whates.
• The Dragon Page interviews Kelley Armstrong (podcast).
• The Rejectionist interviews Elizabeth Hand.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Tracy Hickman and Scott Sigler (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Nancy Fulda on What I've Learned From Critique Groups.
• Annalee Newitz on All the books you'll be lusting for this fall season.
• Rene Walling on Upcoming SF Events in September.
• Angela Slatter on The Frustration of the Long-Distance Editor.
• Rachelle Gardner on Are You a Do-It-Yourself Type?
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Making Trouble.
• Nathan Bransford on The Package of Services Publishers Provide Authors and How This Is Changing.
  

News

• Mary Anne Mohanraj looking for South Asian SF Authors.
• Stieg Larsson: lover reveals why she won't hand over final manuscript.
• Tor Two Editorial Interns Wanted.

Blameless by Gail Carriger

August 24, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Susannah Applebaum.
  
• Sam Weller interviews Ray Bradbury (video).
• Matt Staggs interviews Johannes Cabal.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Jason Sanford (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Aliette De Bodard on Thought Experiments: The View from the Other Side: Science Fiction and Non-Western/Non-Anglophone Countries.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Caitlin R. Kiernan's The Ammonite Violin & Others.
• Marly Youmans on Writing & Her Daughter.
• Gary Westfahl on Notes from a Mixed Marriage, Or, The Lady and the Monster.
• The Rejectionist on Why Science Fiction?
• Steven Harper Piziks on Writing Nowadays–How We’ve Changed.
• Gerald M. Weinberg on Are We Writers Good Enough for the Internet Age?
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Start Me Up.
• Nicola Morgan on Twitter for Authors - Part 1: Why? and Part 2: Begin to Follow.
  

News

• Charity Auction for The Way of Kings.
• Angry Robot TV launches!

Go buy:

The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales by Angela Slatter

August 23, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Craig Gidney interviews Hal Duncan (outakes here).
  
• Written By profiles Ray Bardbury. (via Nick Mamatas)
  
• Hong Insu interviews Gord Sellar.
• Ko Jangwon interviews Gord Sellar.
• NPR interviews Margaret Atwood. (via Tansy Rayner Roberts)
• If You're Just Joining Us interviews Paul Tremblay (podcast).
• Professor Crazy interviews Jane Lindskold.
• Angela Slatter interviews John DeNardo and John Connolly.
• Jedediah Berry interviews Brian Conn.
  

Advice/Articles

• Odyssey Workshop on Director's Corner: Ending Scenes with Power.
• Forbes on The Highest-Paid Authors.
• Paul Di Filippo on Unique Publicity.
• David Barnett on Only the smuttiest book title can win the battle of the Wankhs.
• Bruce Sterling on Dead Media Beat: sci-fi mag prints on clay tablets.
• Matthew David Surridge on Saints and Shrieks: Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris Fiction.
• Laura Anne Gilman on This usually isn’t what we mean when we talk about a writer’s “voice”.
• Sherwood Smith on Writers on Writing: Emotions and Attraction.
• Janice Hardy on Find Your Plot Fridays: Follow the Leader.
• Kim Wright on Inevitable Envy.
  

News

• Lightspeed Magazine looking for Advertising Manager and/or Advertising Representatives.
• Fantasy Magazine Submissions Period Reopens October 1st, 2010.
• Rose Fox's Magazine Auction.
• Darren Nash Named Digital Publisher for Gollancz.
• Liz Gorinsky Promoted to Editor.

Requiems for the Departed edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone

August 20, 2010 Links and Plugs

Happy birthday to I Should Be Writing.

Interviews

• The Dragon Page interviews Marjorie M. Liu (podcast).
  
• The Agony Column interviews Gary Shteyngart (podcast).
• Angela Slatter interviews John Jarrold.
• Mark Charan Newton interviews Alden Bell.
• Tor/Forge interviews Lee Carroll (video).
  

Advice/Articles

• Caren Gussoff on The Writing Parent.
• Nancy Fulda on Technology and Religion.
• Nick Mamatas on WFC 2010 hassle.
• Graham Sleight’s Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Theodore Sturgeon.
• Orbit on The Chart of Fantasy Art Part 3: Dragons and The Chart of Fantasy Art Part 4: Title Trends and Fonts.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Fighting The Last War.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: So What Do You Think?
• Adrienne Kress on Introspection or The Land of Limbo.
• Chris Abouzeid on "Honey, I Deleted Your Novel!": An Author's Guide to Avoiding Disaster.
  

News

• Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB Reading August 18, 2010.
• BVC Welcomes New Member Gerald M. Weinberg.
• Photos from Ray Bradbury's 90th Birthday.
• New on the Kindle: Last Drink Bird Head! (For Charity).

Retro Spec: Tales of Fantasy and Nostalgia edited by Karen A. Romanko

August 19, 2010 Links and Plugs

Locally, New Worlds Alliance wants me to plug their Mockingjay book launch.

Interviews

• Locus interviews N.K. Jemisin.
  
• The Agony Column interviews David Corbett and Barry Eisler (podcast).
• Suvudu chat transcript with Terry Brooks.
• Down Under Wonderings interviews Angela Slatter.
• John Ottinger III interviews Jonathan Maberry.
  

Advice/Articles

• Jim C. Hines on Judging the Past Through the Lens of the Present.
• SFWA on 5 Resources for Tracking Your To-do Lists.
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday Golden Oldie: Poking Dead Scenes With A Stick.
  

News

• 2012 World Fantasy Convention Site.

Go Tehani:

Worlds Next Door edited by Tehani Wessely

August 18, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Rose Fox interviews Laura Anne Gilman.
• Suvudu interviews Charles Yu (video).
• Shawn Speakman interviews Terry Brooks.
• Angela Slatter interviews Felicity Dowker.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Anthony Huso.
• Mihir Wanchoo interviews Dan Wells.
• The ABC Book Show interviews Neil Gaiman (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Lisa Goldstein on Malice vs. Stupidity.
• Nader Elhefnawy on Science Fiction and the Post-Cold War.
• Ted Gioia on Ray Bradbury at Ninety: An Appreciation.
• Marjorie M. Liu on Human Magic.
• Ethan Gilsdorf on When literary authors slum in genre.
• Orbit on The Chart of Fantasy Art Part 2: Urban Fantasy.
• Deborah J. Ross on Don’t You Want Somebody to Love? How I Find New Favorite Authors.
• Rachelle Gardner on How I Became An Agent.
• Michael Stackpole on 9 Must-have Clauses for Digital Rights Contracts.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Are We Done Yet?
• Nathan Bransford on How to Write a Novel.
• Jacqueline Windh on Talking Books: Promoting Your Work on Radio.
  

News

• Part-time Magazines & Editorial Internship at VIZ Media.

Null Immortalis

August 17, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• The New Gay interviews Steve Berman.
  
• Peter Orullian interviews Ed Greenwood.
  
• From Bar to Bar interviews Larry Nolen.
• Angela Slatter interviews Nicole Murphy, Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, and Jason Fischer.
• JAXA interviews Housuke Nojiri.
• Ray Garraty interviews Lena Meydan.
  

Advice/Articles

• Cheryl Morgan on Changing Images of Trans People in Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Report from Clarion San Diego: Great Writing, Purple Dye, Water Gun Battles, and Book Recs.
• Rachelle Gardner on The Revision Letter.
• Eric Rosenfield on The Meaning of Novelty: Convention, Form, Genre and an Existential Crisis.
  

News

• The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Micro Submissions!

Twilight Forever Rising by Lena Meydan

August 16, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Angry Robot Podcast interviews Lauren Beukes and Kaaron Warren.
• Plains FM 96.9 interviews Ripley Patton (podcast).
• Redstone Science Fiction interviews NASA’s Keats Wilkie.
• The Agony Column interviews Barry Eisler and David Corbett (podcast).
• Angela Slatter interviews Kyle Cassidy.
• The Guardian Books Podcast interviews China Mieville.
• Princess Reviews interviews Janice Hardy.
  

Advice/Articles

• Mario Cacciottolo on Why book signings are becoming such a performance.
• The Onion on Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Cyclonopedia: Best Horror Novel You’ve Never Heard Of.
• Odyssey Workshop on Writing Question: Short story or novel?
• Sherwood Smith on Sensawunda.
• Janice Hardy on Find Your Plot Fridays: What to do, What to do?
  

News

• Edinburgh Book Festival boss lets the books talk.
• After the Sundial release.
• 2010 WSFA Small Press Award Finalists.
• One-Year subscription to Black Gate now available for $21.95.

The Immersion Book of SF edited by Carmelo Rafala

August 13, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Brent Weeks (podcast).
  
• T.J. McIntyre interviews Gary Kloster.
• Locus interviews Patrick Rothfuss.
• Phillip Sobel interviews Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Zoe Ferraris.
• Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews Ian Tregillis.
• Angela Slatter interviews Trent Jamieson.
  

Advice/Articles

• Angela Slatter On the Magpie Mind and the (Mis)Uses of Research.
• Laird Barron on The editors readers don't see.
• Mitch Wagner on Heinlein: Forward-looking diversity advocate or sexist bigot? Yes.
• Jo Walton on The Right Kind of Girl and Patterson Heinlein biography: Not to be trusted on details.
  
• Charlie Stross on Through a backward telescope: Heinlein’s context.
• Phyllis Irene Radford on So You Want To Commit Novel: Conferences.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Creative Destruction.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Ahead of its Time.
  

News

• Best American Fantasy Series to End.

Never saw these anthology covers (I'm young). Will it tackle feminism and the like?

Anthopology 101 by Bud Webster

August 12, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• The Dragon Page interviews Amelia Beamer (podcast).
• Suvudu interviews Ed Greenwood.
• Angela Slatter interviews Mary Robinette Kowal.
  

Advice/Articles

• Gail Carriger on Making of a book cover: "Blameless".
• SFWA on 5 Resources to Assist Your Research (Pants Not Required).
• Ben Myers on The public role of the private writer.
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden on Robert A. Heinlein: The Tor.com Blog Symposium.
• Mitch Wagner on Robert A. Heinlein: A real-life Forrest Gump.
• Jo Walton on “Out far, and onward yet!” Heinlein’s future history stories of the thirties and forties.
• John Scalzi on Heinlein: Strangely Human.
• Sarah A. Hoyt on Coming Home.
• Pamela Dean on Tomorrow Through the Past.
• John R. Fultz on Writing Fantasy: Character is King.
• Chaz Brenchley on Everyone talks about process.
• Rachelle Gardner on Should Pubbed Authors Go to Conferences?
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: Where Was I Going Again?
• Pat's Fantasy Hotlist on Most hated SFF characters.
  

News

• Tolkien and Dickens' Kin Join Forces.
• Subterranean Press eBay Sale.

Sympathy for the Devil edited by Tim Pratt

August 11, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Gillian Polack has an interview with Kaaron Warren.
• Flames Rising interviews Ed Greenwood.
• Suvudu has a recording of Reading With Brains - A Zombie Panel (podcast).
• GalleyCat profiles Ray Bradbury.
• BSC Review interviews Alex Bledsoe.
• Angela Slatter interviews Russell B. Farr.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Ted Chiang.
  

Advice/Articles

• Deborah J. Ross on The Craft of Writing: Structure, Shape, and Interest.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Know When to Hold 'Em.
• Jason Sanford on For students: A few words on genre and literary fiction.
• Mark Charan Newton on Authors & Expectations.
• Nathan Bransford on Do You Suffer From One of These Writing Maladies?
  

News

• Call for Submissions to the Dwarf Stars Anthology.

The Secret History of Fantasy edited by Peter S. Beagle

August 10, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Angela Slatter interviews Aliette de Bodard.
  
• Suvudu video recording of Kelley Armstrong.
  
• The Outer Alliance interviews Debra Killeen.
  
• The World SF Blog interviews Misha´El Yehudá.
  

Advice/Articles

• Naomi Alderman on Steampunk culture: an introduction.
• Jim C. Hines on The Death of Print/Publishing, Part MCCLWTFXVIII.
• Morgan Dempsey on The Software Engineer’s Guide To Writing.
• Jeremy L.C. Jones on A Truly Public Monster or Why Are Zombies Fun to Talk about?
• Peadarog on Thank Goodness! Why Gatekeepers Will Always Be With Us.
• Ian Sales on The Unreachable Frontier.
• Laura Shapiro on Shirley Jackson's Wifely Witchcraft.
• Manfred Dworschak on The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World.
• Lisa Shearin on 5 things I’ve learned about writing — writing is a business.
• Rachelle Gardner on What to Ask an Agent.
  

News

• Alt Hist | The new magazine of Historical Fiction and Alternate History.

The Very Best of Charles de Lint

August 9, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Odyssey Workshop on Elaine Isaak.
• Arafat Kazi interviews Paolo Bacigalupi. (via Gord Sellar)
• Zombie Popcorn Radio interviews Gail Carriger (video).
• Greg Baldino profiles Ray Bradbury.
• Boston.com interviews J.C. Hallman.
• The Agony Column interviews Tim Powers (podcast).
• Tor.com Editorial Roundtable: The Roots of Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy.
• Brit Mandelo interviews Steve Berman.
• Angela Slatter interviews Marshall Payne.
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Benjamin Tate on How do you find books?
• Jeff VanderMeer on The Pillars of Your Public Booklife: What Do You Find Most Important?
• Larry Nolen on Cultural materialism and historicism in the reading of speculative literature.
• Angela Slatter On reprint collections or Never accept a raisin danish from an Evil Monkey.
• Amy Sterling Casil on The World is Ready For Your Book – But Are You?
• Madeleine E. Robins on Just Stop. Now.
• Chris Dolley on Megalomania 101.
• Sherwood Smith on Series Payoffs.
• Janice Hardy on Find Your Plot Fridays: Back Fill Those Plot Holes.
• Nicola Morgan on Selling Out?
  

News

• Artist Builds Rooms Out of Books.
• Congratulations to the 2010 Chesley Award Winners!
• Reynolds & Conroy Win Sidewise Awards.

Go buy:

The Third Bear by Jeff VanderMeer

August 6, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Sue Granquist interviews Kelley Armstrong.
• Angela Slatter interviews Jason Nahrung.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Kat Richardson.
• The British Science Fiction Association interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Xujun Eberlein on The Return of Politically Charged Science Fiction in China.
• Jaymee Goh on To Comfort the Disturbed, and Vice Versa.
• Nancy Fulda on Slush Gripe of the Day: Melodramatic Anger.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: E-Books Become Ubiquitous.
• Phyllis Irene Radford on So You Want to Commit Novel: The Million Word Myth.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: The Great Experiment.
• Alma Alexander On Magic.
• Janice Hardy on Theme Me Up.
• Sarah Coldheart on Speculating Speculative Fiction in Singapore.
  

New issue:

Lightspeed August 2010

August 5, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Book Banter interviews Justin Cronin.
• Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews Jim C. Hines.
• Angela Slatter interviews Theodora Goss and Lezli Robyn.
• The Rejectionist interviews Nnedi Okorafor.
• WordPunk interviews Lauren Beukes (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Jim C. Hines on Changes in Publishing.
• SFWA on 5 Resources on Tracking Submissions.
• John R. Fultz On Writing Fantasy: The Plot Thickens.
• Sherwood Smith on Childhood Goals.
• Editorial Ass on Moonrat's Rundown of Publishing Options.
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: On Your Mark, Get Set, Edit!
• Pimp My Novel on A Word to the Wise.
  

News

• Parsec Awards 2010 Finalists.

Go read:

Apex Magazine #15

August 4, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• StarShipSofa interviews Mary Robinette Kowal and Fabio Fernandes.
  
• Mark McLaughlin interviews Stephen Graham Jones.
• The Sydney Morning Herald interviews Neil Gaiman.
• Suvudu interviews Jarrett J. Krosoczka (video).
• Sue Lange interviews Guy LeCharles Gonzalez.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Mary Robinette Kowal.
• The Rejectionist interviews Elizabeth Hand.
  

Advice/Articles

• Alexandra Ivy on What Happened to Genres?
• Deborah J. Ross on The Writer’s Life: Listening.
• Janice Hardy on She's Such a Character.
• John Ottinger III on Reviewing Those “Tough” Books.
• Nathan Bransford on Writing vs. Storytelling.
  

News

• Ray Bradbury prunes commercial.

Happy book release day:

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

August 3, 2010 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Ron Hogan interviews Laura Anne Gilman (video).
• Abaddon & Solaris Books Podcast interviews Jonathan Green and Al Ewing.
• John Ottinger III interviews Thomas Easton and Judith Dial.
• Angela Slatter interviews Ellen Datlow.
  

Advice/Articles

• Cory Doctorow on Doctorow's First Law.
• Alisa Krasnostein on 10 Important Things I’ve learned about Indie Publishing.
• Hal Duncan on Notes from New Sodom: The Combat Fiction Bar & Grill.
• Lisa Shearin on Part 4 of 5 Things I’ve learned about writing: Momentum matters.
• Pimp My Novel on Why You Still Want an Agent.
  

News

• Ditmar Nominees.

Clarkesworld #47

August 2, 2010 Links and Plugs

Away over the weekend, now playing catchup.

Interviews

• Angela Slatter interviews Kim Newman.
  
• The Outer Alliance interviews Cheryl Morgan.
• Jonathan Strahan chats with Gary K. Wolfe.
  

Advice/Articles

• Tansy Rayner Roberts on How to Read Big Fat Fantasy.
• Gio Clairval on Lightness: Italo Calvino’s hope for the future of literature.
• Mark Oppenheimer on Judging a Girl by Her Cover.
• C.S.E. Cooney on Exploring Fantasy in Metal, Part III: Dangerous Side Effects.
• MK Hobson on Stranger in a Strange Land.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion, Part Two.
• Juliette Wade on Edible Babies?

Warrior Wisewoman 3 edited by Roby James