January 26, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Jackie Morris interviews Margo Lanagan.
• Daemon Books interviews Theodora Goss.
• The Qwillery interviews Theodora Goss.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews James Rollins.
• Gollancz interviews Stephen Deas.
• ThrillerCast interviews Angela Slatter (podcast).
• SFF World interviews Myke Cole and Michael J. Sullivan.
• SF Squeecast Episode 8 (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• A Dribble of Ink (Brent Weeks) on Geeks Come Home: 10 SFF Authors Play D&D Together.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Unity, Economy, and Writing as a Revelatory Act.
• John Shirley on Wolf Packing? Did the Tea Party get upset with me?
• Hiroshi Yamamoto on The World of MM9.
• Maggie Stiefvater on From Rough to Final: TEN Dissections.
• Juliette Wade on Checklist for creating alternate social and cultural norms in a fictional world.
• Janice Hardy on Leave the Breadcrumbs Behind: Are You Asking -- and Answering -- the Right Story Questions?
• Lisa L. Hannett on Pitching Novels to Publishers: Spectacular Spectacular.
• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Ben Marcus.
• Charlie Stross (Cat Valente) on Hello My Name Is The Problem of Memory.
• Inkpunks (Stina Leicht) on Armadillocon Writer’s Workshop.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on The Demi-Monde: A High Concept Sci Fi Thriller for Fans of Neal Stephenson.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: The Age of Perfect Creation.
• Science In My Fiction (Peggy Kolm) on Soylent Green for dinner?

News

• inkscrawl, and Stone Bird Press.
• 2012 Crawford Award Announced.
• Stone Telling issue 7, Queer issue, call for subs.
• Westeros map app.
• The Situation Web Comic--now up at Tor.com!
• Strange Chemistry Open Door 2012.
• NY Review of SF Readings Coast Guard Special.

When We Were Executioners by JM McDermott