February 17, 2011 Links and Plugs

Just a heads up that I might not be updating the blog during the week of Feb. 21 ~ Feb. 25 due to work.

Interviews

• RevolutionSF interviews Ika Koek and Alaya Johnson (podcast).
• Little Miss Zombie interviews Amy Grech.
• Black Gate interviews Howard Andrew Jones.
• BSC Review interviews L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
• Pyr Author Round Tables with Mark Chadbourn, Jasper Kent, and James Barclay.
• RT Book Reviews interviews Nick Mamatas.

Advice/Articles

• Rose Lemberg on Privilege and Postal Submissions.
• Theodora Goss on Value Yourself.
• Jeff VanderMeer on State of the Blog: Re-defining, Re-purposing, Focus.
• Morgan Dempsey on Why I Like YA SFF.
• Nancy Kress on Return of a Pirate.
• Paul C. Smith On Moral (Fantasy) Fiction.
• Paul Graham Raven on This is why trying to prevent book piracy is utterly futile.
• Nancy Fulda on Keep Your Contracts.
• Rachel Swirsky on Rereading.
• Nathan Ballingrud on An Act of Faith.
• PC Pro on The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle. 
• Jeff VanderMeer on Modern Heroic Fantasy: Vibrant and Diverse or Bankrupt and Nihilistic?
• Juliette Wade on Wednesday Worldbuilding Workshop: Description implies narrator focus.
• Janice Hardy on No Pain, No Gain: Killing Your Darlings.
• John Scalzi on Science Fiction vs. Science Fantasy.

News

• Current health status of Peter Watts.
• Analog changes submission process.
• Gail Z. Martin Debuts New Web Site.
• The 2011 storySouth Million Writers Award Is Open.

Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales & by Anna Tambour