December 21, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

Notice: Will be ending the link aggregation in 2013.

Interviews and Profiles

• Guy LeCharles Gonzales interviews Tobias Buckell.
• SF Squeecast Episode 19 (podcast).
• Fast Forward interviews Joe Haldeman (video).
• Civilian Reader interviews EJ Swift.
• Sense of Wonder interviews Tim Pratt.
• Slate (June Thomas) interviews Fred Bass.
• Spectrum interviews Michael Whelan.

Advice/Articles

• Book View Cafe (Patricia Burroughs) on 2012 and Books I’ve Loved.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: Where Art Meets Commerce.
• Book Life Now (Troy D. Smith) on Finding Your Audience and Branching Out.
• Inkpunks (Erika Holt) on Scene-stealing Antagonists.
• Tor Books Blog (John Gwynne) on The Inspiration Behind Malice.
• Gwenda Bond on Emma Newman & A Split Worlds Story.
• The Book Smugglers (Jen Reese) on books.
• Shah Wharton (Angela Brown) on PUFF.
• The Guardian (Richard Lea) on Darkness in literature: 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov.
• DAW Books Book Discussion: "Shadowheart".
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on T.H. White's 'Once and Future King'.
• Suvudu (Sarah Peed) on Dear Readers: A Letter from Sarah Peed.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on If I Had ALL the Time in the World, Teen Edition part 2.
• Timothy C. Ward on Why AudioTim is Back.
• Australian Book Review (Matt Rubinstein) on Copyright law and enforcement in the age of the electronic book. [via BoingBoing]
• NPR (Lynn Neary) on Self-Publishing: No Longer Just A Vanity Project.
• Mashable (Eric Larson) on Scientist Says Human Cloning Could be Possible in 50 Years.
• WhatCulture (Shaun Munro) on 10 Awesome Death Scenes From Awful Horror Movies.
• Newsarama (Graeme McMlilan) on The 10 (Fictional) Comic Book People of the Year.
• SciFiNow (James Hoare) on Top 5 best comics and graphic novels of 2012.
• AbeBooks on The top 100 most searched for out-of-print books.
• Tor.com (Adam McGovern) on Ending Well: The Best Comics You Won’t See in 2013.
• Quill & Quire Canadian booksellers pick top science fiction and fantasy books of 2012.
• The Telegraph (Tim Martin) on Science fiction and fantasy of the year.
• Lit Reactor (Rajan Khanna) on Top Ten: The Year's Best Fantasy - 2012.

Reviews

• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews Wyrd Sisters.
• Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on Cujo.

Art

• Fantasy Art by Simon Palmér.

News

• KGB reading photos December 19, 2012.
• Constantin Film Picks Up Rights To Sci-Fi Novel ‘Unwind’.
• Kevin Hearne sells six to Del Rey.
• Now available: the New Millennium Edition of High Wizardry.
• Angry Robot Christmas Audiobook Competition.

Events

• Nick Mamatas & Brian Keene read at KGB Bar January 16.

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