August 17, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Pyr (Rene Sears) interviews K. D. McEntire.
• The Qwillery interviews Claire Ashgrove.
• A Fantastical Librarian interviews Aidan Moher.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Harlan Ellison (podcast).
• SFFWRTCHT With John Picacio.
• SFFWRTCHT With Peter V. Brett.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Adam Christopher (podcast).
• SF Site (Dave Truesdale) interviews Edward M. Lerner.
• Speculate! Podcast Episode 54.
• Weird Fiction Review (Jeffrey Ford) interviews Derek Ford.
• Fora TV interviews Cory Doctorow (video).

Advice/Articles

• John Picacio on Be My Enemy Cover Art.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Anthropological SF: Eleanor Arnason’s A Woman of the Iron People.
• Smart Pop Books (Lawrence Watt-Evans) on A Consideration of Certain Aspects of Vogon Poetry.
• Gail Z. Martin on The End of the World As We Know It.
• SF Site (Rick Klaw) on Nexus Graphica.
• L.B. Gale on 10 Fictional Bookworms And What They Imply about Real Bookworms.
• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) on Libriomancer, by Jim C Hines.
• Comic Vine on The 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Movie Plot Revealed.
• Lit Reactor (BH Sheperd) on Five Reasons To Get Excited About Guardians Of The Galaxy.
• John Anealio on 5 Favorite Musical Artists of Author Nina D'Aleo.
• Mental Floss (Andrew Shaffer) on How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read. [via Bill Crider]
• SFX (Dave Golder) on Top 50 Superhero Movies Of All Time: 2012 Edition.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Top 10 Practical, Everyday Money Saving Tips For (Starving) Writers.
• The Guardian (Imogen Russell Williams) on Fictional ghost cities: where teenage darkness finds a home.
• Lou Anders on Just a thought....
• Library Journal (Kristi Chadwick) on Hungry for SF: Genre Crossovers Retain Fans and Attract New Readers.
• Justine Larbalestier on Selling Yourself Online.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: A Tale of Two Royalty Statements.
• Inkpunks (Tracie Welser) on Writing Conventions and How to Survive (an Incomplete List).
• Terri Windling on Animal stories, continued.

Art

• Time Machineby ~Hideyoshi
• robot vs robotby ~lingy-0
• Lone Missionary by Svetlin Velinov
• The Hunger Games by Leah Jacobs-Gordon
• Roach Exo-Suit_001 by Matthew Burke
• Battle Sandwich by Christian Pearce

 News

• Colin Harvey Memorial Ebook Bundle – All Proceeds to Charity.
• New World Rights for Urban Fantasy Writer Suzanne McLeod.
• Weird Tales A Message from the Editor.
• Shimmer #16 Table of Contents.

Events

• Paul Tremblay and Alma Katsu read at KGB Bar September 19.
• 2012 Clarion Fall One-Day Workshops.

The Traitor Queen by Trudi Canavan

August 16, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Civilian Reader interviews Gwenda Bond.
• The Guardian (Laura Barnett) interviews Joyce Carol Oates.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Tiffany Trent, Joanne Reay, Will Hill.
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast episode 66. 
• Jedi News interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Roqoo Depot interviews Tim Lebbon.
• Flickering Myth interviews Davide Caputo.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Caroline Hooton) interviews Tom Pollock.

Advice/Articles

• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on Queering SFF: Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on Mars in Science Fiction (Part 1).
• The Qwillery (Lee Battersby) guest blog.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) Take Five with Lia Habel.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on “Science Fiction” and Literature – or Thoughts on Delany and the Plurality of Interprative Processes.
• BBC News Magazine (Colm O'Regan) on From robot trader to computer overlord? 
• BBC News on Galaxy cluster's 'starburst' surprises astronomers.
• Finn's Wake on Walking With Blinders Through The Last Book Sale, part 4.
• Salon (Stephen Deusner) on “Mystery Science Theater” host: Yelling at the screen makes us smarter!

Art

• Tor Books Blog Cover Launch: Boneshaker, Dreadnought and Ganyemede.
• Liran Szeiman – Sugarflesh: Dark and emotional Illustration.

News

• NeuroNexus logo The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. 
• Toronto's Lo-Fi Sci-Fi 48 Hour Film Challenge.
• Introducing Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology.
• Comiket 82 Ties 'Turnstile' Attendance Record at 560,000.

Events

• Forbidden Planet.

Harry Harrison Tributes

• Locus
• John Rogers
• John Scalzi
• Tom Doherty
• Gollancz
• io9
• Black Gate
• Media Bistro
• Tor.com
• Sarah Peed
• Cheryl Morgan 
• Neil Gaiman
• George R. R. Martin
• SFWA
• The Washington Post
• BBC
• The Associated Press
• Music Radio 77
• Boing Boing
• Blastr

Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford

August 15, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Los Angeles Times (Alex Pham) interviews Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.
• Annie's Book Stop of Worcester interviews Shira Lipkin. 
• Intergalactic Acaddemy (Phoebe North) interviews EC Myers.
• Lightspeed (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews Linda Nagata.
• Lightspeed (Caleb Jordan Schulz) interviews Tina Connolly & Caroline M. Yoachim.
• Bookworm Blues interviews Stina Leicht.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Adam Christopher (podcast).
• Grasping for the Wind interviews Stephen Deas.
• SFX interviews Neal Asher.
• Fantasy Literature (Bill Capossere) interviews D.B. Jackson.
• Janet Reid interviews Dan Krokos.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Mihir Wanchoo) interviews G.T. Almasi.
• HWA interviews Joshua Hale Fialkov.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews G.T. Almasi.
• Marshall Payne interviews Marissa Lingen.

Advice/Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer on Editors, Influence, and You. 
• Publishers Weekly (Cory Doctorow) on Doubling Down on DRM.
• Orbit (Trudi Canavan) on Trudi Canavan’s Recipe for a Delicious Sequel.
• Mike Brotherton on 10 More Classic Mistakes in Science Fiction Movies.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Things You Should Know About Metaphor.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on 10 Comic Book Characters Who Are Cooler Than Batman.
• Daily News (Dana Bartholomew) on Celebrating 100 years of Tarzan: Edgar Rice Burroughs' legacy -- and namesake of Tarzana.
• Smart Pop Books (Paul Levinson) on How Star Trek Liberated Television.
• Staffer's Book Review reviews Wards of Faerie by Terry Brooks.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter reviews Fat Girl in a Strange Land Edited by Kay T. Holt and Bart R. Leib.
• Whatculture! (Shaun Munro) on 10 Worst Comic Book Movies Of All Time.
• Whatculture! (Stuart W. Bedford) on 10 Epic Batman Story Arcs to Adapt for Batman 4.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Nisi Shawl) on Funny uncles.

 Art

• Iconic Furniture In Pop Culture.
• Castle Marsh by Kekai Kotaki.

News

• Midnight and Moonshine.
• Winners of the 2012 storySouth Million Writers Award.
• Adam Niswander (1946-2012).

The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent

August 14, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Skiffy and Fanty w/ Stina Leicht and Charles Tan (podcast).
• International Speculative Fiction (Cheryl Morgan) interviews Anne Leinonen.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Alastair Reynolds.
• Geekdad interviews Diane Duane (podcast).
• Lovecraft eZine interviews Jeffrey Thomas (video).
• Blackstone Audio interviews James Sallis (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews James P. Blaylock (podcast).
• Tor.com (Peter Orullian) interviews Steven Erikson.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) interviews Brenda Chapman.

Advice/Articles

• Smart Pop Books (Adam-Troy Castro) on Dear Magneto.
• Orbit (Michael Cobley) on Alien Worlds.
• Inkpunks (Kaolin Fire) on Exploratory Writing.
• The Huffington Post on How To Save Bookstores: 28 Ideas From Existing Locations.
• William Shunn on Differentiating major and minor scene breaks.
• Gail Carriger on Gail's Favorite 5 Industry Resources.
• The Guardian (Ewan Morrison) on In the beginning, there was fan fiction: from the four gospels to Fifty Shades.
• Roger Launius on Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. 
• Bare Bones e-zine (Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 31: July, August and September 1974.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) on Book Review: The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter.
• Jane Friedman (Bruce Holland Rogers) on Selling Flash Fiction Via E-Mail—Successfully.

Art

• Concept ships with environments by Layne Johnson.
• The Baron Munchausen by Clo.
• Fracture Image.

News

• Monsters Anonymous by Theresa Derwin.
• Aurora Awards.
• Science Fiction Awards Database.

A Bottle of Storm Clouds by Eliza Victoria

August 13, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, and Genevieve Valentine.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Glen Cook.
• Internet Evolution interviews Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (podcast).
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Jason Heller.

Advice/Articles

• The Steampunk World's Fair (Jeff Mach) on An Open Letter To Steampunk Fandom.
• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Neal Stephenson.
• Wired Science (Tanya Lewis) on Peanuts, Blackjack and Pee: Strangest Space Mission Superstitions.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on E-Memories dot com.
• Justine Larbalestier on What To Do About Cranky Authors.
• Locus on Top-Earning Authors.
• The Guardian (Alison Flood) on Mars in fiction: the best books.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Notes on Writing: The Perfection of Imperfect Comprehension.

Art

• Heinlein Illos from Boys' Life.
• Pacifica Soldier.
• Vintage Space Suits Ad by ~zaidoigres.
• Sand and dustby *Blinck.

News

• FantasyCon 2012 My Favourite Ghost Story.
• Carlo Rambaldi, the Man Behind the Monsters, 1925-2012.

Permeable Borders by Nina Kiriki Hoffman

August 10, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Kari Sperring.
• The Qwillery interviews K.A. Stewart.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews Norman Spinrad (podcast).
• The Damned Interviews interviews Terry Brooks.
• Fantasy Literature (Rebecca Fisher) interviews Terry Brooks.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Sam Sykes.
• Salon (Sandy Cohen) interviews Tony Gilroy.
• Fantasy Matters (Mark Schelske) interviews Guy Adams.
• The Robot Reader interviews Cheryl Morgan.

Advice/Articles

• Theodora Goss on Finding the Magic.
• Sigrid Ellis On being a submissions editor.
• Tor.com (Brit Mandelo) on A Diminutive Delight: Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan.
• CNN (Greg Bear) on Why I love Mars.
• The Atlantic (Meghan Lewit) on Why Do Female Authors Dominate Young-Adult Fiction?
• Mary Robinette Kowal (Kat Richardson) talks about Seawitch.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on Hugo Gernsback: To Great Heights and Down Again.
• This is Horror on The influence of MR James on the horror genre.
• Orbit (Tim Lebbon) on Horrible Fantasies and Fantastic Horrors.
• Civilian Reader (Jonathan Wood) on Living With The Consequences (or Why I Can No Longer Read the X-Men).
• Book View Cafe (Nancy Jane Moore) on What Kate Wilhelm Is Doing.
• Bar Bones E-zine (Jack Seabrook) on Ray Bradbury on TV Part One: Alfred Hitchcock Presents "Shopping for Death".
• First Second Books (Gina Gagliano) on Publishing vs. Kickstarter.
• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) on Book Review: In Situ, edited by Carrie Cuinn.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Mike Gonzo and the Sewer Monster by Bill Crider, 1996.
• Jo Fletcher Books (Gavin at Gavreads) on I’m Not That Kind of Fantasy Reader.
• Graham Edwards on Dreaming of Mars.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on What Your Favorite YA Series Says About You.
• The Guardian (Sam Jordison) on Reading group: have you fallen under Alan Garner's spell?
• Weird Fiction Review (Nancy Hightower) on The House of Our Nightmares: Night Hunter by Stacey Steers.
• Justine Larbalestier on The Point of Process Porn.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: The Agent Clause (Deal Breakers 2012).
• John Scalzi on An Incomplete Guide to Not Creeping.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Nisi Shawl) on Fluid identities.

Art

• aeternus quiescere.
• Model ships by ikarus.
• Tor.com (Irene Gallo) on Artists Illustrate Heroes and Villains.
• Wallpaper by Cyril Terpent.

News

• Orbit Sale Blooded by by Amanda Carlson for $0.99.
• Doctor Who 50th Anniversary: Mark Gatiss To Write Early Years Drama.
• Tor eBooks Now DRM-Free! Win an entire Tor Library.
• New SF bookstore devoted to rescuing out-of-print sf books and making them into free ebooks.
• Chicon 7 Steps Up Art Activities with ASFA Support.
• Get the First Episode of Scalzi’s The Human Division Early.
• Apex Magazine Closing to Submissions October 1-December 31.
• RIP Roland C. Wagner (1960-2012).

Events

• School's Out Forever! Scott K Andrews at Forbidden Planet.

Synners by Pat Cadigan

August 9, 2012 Links and Plugs

Congrats to the World Fantasy Award nominees.

Interviews and Profiles

• Roanoke (Mike Allen) interviews Tiffany Trent.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Lara Zielin.
• RT Book Reviews interviews Jim C. Hines. 
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Leah Cypress) interviews Sarah J. Maas.
• Your Public Media with Elizabeth Bear (podcast).
• BuzzyMag interviews Ellen Kushner (video).

Advice/Articles

• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) on World Fantasy Award Finalists Include George R.R. Martin, Jo Walton, and Lavie Tidhar. 
• Justine Larbalestier On Getting Notes From First Readers.
• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin on Some Thoughts on How POV Works.
• Gollancz (Miles Cameron) on Introducing The Red Knight.
• The Awl (Jane Hu) on A Timeline Of Future Events.
• Omnivoracious (Seira Wilson) on Exclusives from Amanda Hocking.
• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on A Flood of Science Fiction.
• This Is Horror (Simon Marshall-Jones) on The influence of MR James on the horror genre.
• Far Beyond Reality on vN by Madeline Ashby.
• The Qwillery (Alex Hughes) on Crossing Genres.
• SFX (David Bradley) on 5 Things Sci-Fi Shows Should Learn From Eureka.
• The Millions (Allison K. Gibson) on He Hit Send: On the Awkward but Necessary Role of Technology in Fiction.
• NPR on Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels.
• SFWA (Victoria Strauss) on Ebooks Outsell Print! Putting Headlines in Context.

Art

• Travelers of Space by Edd Cartier, 1951.
• Skaar Son of Hulk No. 10.

 News

• Geek Love: An Anthology of Full Frontal Nerdity Call for Submissions.
• James P. Blaylock e-books now available!

The Last Balcony by D.F. Lewis

August 8, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• Apex Magazine (Maggie Slater) interviews Genevieve Valentine.
• Lightspeed (Andrew Liptak) interviews Ken Liu.
• Lightspeed (Robyn Lupo) interviews Wil McCarthy.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Jules Sherred.
• Kindle Daily Post interviews Amanda Hocking.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Jim C. Hines.
• Dead Robots Society interviews Matthew Wayne Selznick (podcast).
• Brad R. Torgersen interviews Karen Lord.
• Writer Tamago interviews Tiffany Trent.
• Marshall Payne interviews S. K. S. Perry.

Advice/Articles

• Angry Robot Books on Adam Christopher’s Five Favourite Superheroes.
• The Guardian (Damien Walter) on Being male is not a prerequisite for hard SF.
• Tor Books Blog (Adrian Tchaikovsky) on Or from a Great Height: Killing Off Characters in Epic Fantasy.
• Apex Magazine (Jim C. Hines) on Mighty Axes and Beer-Soaked Beards: The Portrayal of Dwarves in Fantasy.
• Staffer's Book Review on When Mainstream Publishers Do SFF.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Ways To Survive As A Creative Person.
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Wearing the Poisoned Shirt.
• Locus Roundtable on Jorge Luis Borges and Others.
• L.B. Gale on How to Reboot Batman Right, or Where’s the TV Side of the Superhero Renaissance?

Art

• Fantasy by Kan Muftic.
• 2D Art by Daniel Ljunggren.
• Sci-Fi by Aaron Limonick.
• 10 Classic Novel Covers in 8-bit Form.
• Handsome Covers, Awesome SF: B&N’s “Leatherbound Classics” Series.

News

• Liaden Universe® Audiobook Blitz.
• Take Part In The Neal Asher Ultimate Reading Initiative And Win Prizes.
• Joss Whedon to direct Avengers 2 and develop a new TV show.
• Roland C. Wagner (1960-2012).
• Issue #4 of Inkscrawl.

Events

• Who Girls Calendar signing at Forbidden Planet.
• Norman Spinrad on Hour of the Wolf.

Swallowing a Donkey's Eye by Paul Tremblay

August 7, 2012 Links and Plugs

Plugging the latest Kickstarter I'm involved in: Tome of Ideas for Writers and Roleplayers.

Interviews and Profiles

• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Walter Jon Williams, Nancy Kress and Michael J. Winegar (podcast).
• Diabolical Plots (Carl Slaughter) interviews Lois Tilton.
• CNN (Christian DuChateau) interviews Charles Yu.
• Fantasy Book Critic (Robert Thompson & Mihir Wanchoo) interviews Anthony Ryan.
• Weird Fiction Review (Adam Mills) interviews Simon Strantzas.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) profiles Marcel Schneider.
• Tor/Forge interviews Edward M. Lerner.

Advice/Articles

• Jeff VanderMeer on Dreaming Well: Does the Future of Publishing Need More Imagination?
• Barbarienne's Den on not really a fontiff post....
• Justine Larbalestier on Getting Started.
• Kat Howard on The Nice and Accurate Reviews of Critic X.
• Seanan McGuire on Adventures in Self-Promotion.
• Lou Anders on 2012 Of course they'll be giant robots... 
• Brian Ruckley on I Like Getting Photos From Mars.
• Austen Authors (Vera Nazarian) on Austen on my Mind.
• Chris Beckett on Words and worlds (2).
• Tor/Forge Blog (Carrie Vaughn) on London: The Ideal Setting.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Col Buchanan) on The Wildness of My Head.
• Bar Bones e-zine (Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook) on Batman in the 1970s Part 30: April, May and June 1974.
• Ian Sales on Starcombing, David Langford.
• Slate (Robert L. Park) on Why Are People Not on Mars?
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on The 10 Best End of the World Novels.

Art

• Ben Baldwin - The Hanged Man.
• Ben Baldwin - The Hermit.
• Les Sonneurs Noirs.
• Nosferatu by Guillaume Vasseur.
• 2D Art by Svetlin Velinov.
• Concept Art by Byz Wader.

News

• Mythopoeic Awards: 2012 Winners Announced.
• Damages Could Exceed $1 Billion in Authors Guild Case Against Google.
• Tim Pratt's "Impossible Dreams" film.

Events

• Ellen Datlow's Summer Book Sale.

The First Last Unicorn and Other Beginnings by Peter S. Beagle

August 6, 2012 Links and Plugs

Asakiyume reviews Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology. :)

Interviews and Profiles

• YA Reading Group interviews Gwenda Bond.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Meagan Spooner.
• The Agony Column interviews Carlos Ruiz Zafón (podcast).
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
• World of Heroes interviews Adam Baldwin (video).
• 20th Century Danny Boy interview with Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster.

Advice/Articles

• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on All The Science Fiction and Fantasy Books You Can’t Afford to Miss in August.
• Genevieve Valentine on Readercon: The Outcome.
• Justine Larbalestier on Why Women Are Silent.
• Jenny Colvin on Shared Worlds Readings.
• The Guardian (Iain M. Banks) on Use of Weapons.
• Helen Lowe (Rowena Cory Daniells) on “Fantasy, the Poor Cousin of Science Fiction”.
• George R.R. Martin on Flying High with Wild Cards.
• L.B. Gale on Three Ways to Mess with Genre.
• SciFiNow (James Hoare) on Top 10 best Game Of Thrones songs.
• Jeffrey Ford Recommended Reading: Fantastic "Collections" -- new and forthcoming -- for August 2012.
• The New York Times (Jeff VanderMeer) on New Blood, ‘Vlad,’ by Carlos Fuentes.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 Movies You Didn’t Realize Were Based on Books and 10 Artifacts from Literature That We Wish Were Real.
• John Hornor Jacobs on My Top Ten Science Fiction Novels.
• Flickering Myth on Computer Upbringing: Sophie Leclerc talks about Happy Downloadday.
• ScifiHeaven.net (Chris Mcquillan) on Top 7 Tips for Creating New Sci-Fi in 2012.
• Nancy Fulda on Learning to Say 'No'.

Art

• New covers for Sisterhood of Dune and Hellhole.
• Art by Randis_Albion.

 News

• Public Statement by the Readercon Convention Committee.
• Apex Publications seeks applicants for Blog Editor position.
• Carl Brandon Society Award Winners.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky Has Finished The Dance Of Reality, His First Film In Over Two Decades.
• More News about Dragoncon Astronomy Workshop.

Birds and Birthdays by Christopher Barzak

August 3, 2012 Links and Plugs

And Lauriat is now available at the wonderful Wizard's Tower Books.

Interviews and Profiles

• My Shelf Confessions interviews Madline Ashby.
• Bookworm Blues interviews Teresa Frohock.
• Orbit (Gail Carriger) interviews Lilith Saintcrow.
• Surreal Grotesque #4 interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Galactic Suburbia Podcast episode 65.
• Reddit interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• [SFFWRTCHT] A Chat With Author Terry Brooks.
• Paperback Writer interviews J.C. Daniels.
• Underwire (Storyboard) interviews Charles Yu (podcast).
• Chuck Wendig interviews J.C. Carleson.
• BBC America interviews Steven Moffat (video).
• Twisted Scifi interviews Randolph Lalonde (podcast).
• Locus interviews Jack Vance.
• Mike Allen interviews Elizabeth Campbell.
• The Editing Essentials interviews Jim C. Hines.

Advice/Articles

• Black Gate (Mike Allen) on The Thrill of the Unexpected: Why I Edit Clockwork Phoenix.
• Indiewire (Andrew Seewood) on Freeing (Black) Science Fiction From The Chains Of Race.
• Brandon Sanderson on The Wheel of Time.
• David Brin's book recommendations.
• Litro (Emily Cleaver) on Five Ghost Stories that Scared M. R. James.
• Waylou on 10 Popular Science Books Every Geek Should Read.
• Cat Valente On Usernames and Blame.
• Justine Larbalestier on Pro Writer versus Pro Academic.
• Aliette de Bodard on The Rule of Names.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Future And Balance (Deal Breakers 2012).
• Rachelle Gardner on The Writing Rules Are Just Tools.
• io9 (George Dvorsky) on 10 Futuristic Technologies That Will Never Exist.
• L.B. Gale on Religious Classifications and Geekdom: A Concept of Canon.
• USA Today (Britt Kennerly) on Mystery of Mars still attracts space lovers.
• John Anealio on 5 Favorite Musical Artists of Author Chris F. Holm.

Art

• Minimal Movie Posters on The Batman Series by Daniel Norris.
• Abduzeedo on Frank Miller.

News

• BISG Report Finds More E-book Buyers Buying Print Books.

Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson

August 2, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Qwillery interviews Madeline Ashby.
• Sweet Freedom interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Weird Tales interviews Carrie Vaughn.
• Clarkesworld (Jeremy L.C. Jones) interviews China Mieville.
• Racebending on Comic-Con 2012: Creating Spaces for Diverse Characters and Representations (video).
• Civilian Reader interviews Jonathan Wood.
• The Enchanted Inkpot (PJ Hoover) interviews Joy Preble.
• Pyr-A-Zine (Rene Sears) Q & A with James Enge.

Advice/Articles

• Kirkus Reviews (John DeNardo) on 11 Not-to-Miss Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for August.
• L.B. Gale on A Myth Studies Reading List for Fantasy Writers.
• Frederik Pohl on Robert Sheckley: If the Marx Brothers Had Been Writers….
• Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on The Philip K. Dick Movie Report Card.
• SF Site (Derek Johnson) on Watching the Future.
• This American Life on Just South of the Unicorns.
• Lit Reactor(Rob W. Hart) on Is Kickstarter A Viable Tool For Writers? 
• SciFiNow (Samuel Roberts) on Top 10 Best Star Wars Games.
• BBC News on Chemistry experiments of yesterday recreated in lab.
• Flickering Myth on Axe to Grind: The Making of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Diligence Pays Off-Success Equals Talent Plus Work.
• Cheryl Morgan on Further Thoughts on Harassment.

Art

• Periodic Table of Typefaces.
• The Batman Evolution.
• Concept Art by Chris Lomaka.
• Illustration by Alayna Lemmer.
• Star Wars Villains Imagined As Adorable Little Tykes.

News

• Geeky Summer Reading: Get Jonathan Wood’s No Hero and New Sequel Yesterday’s Hero For Free.
• S.E. Hinton Responds to Outsiders Fan Fiction.
• New Visions Awards.
• Crossed Genres Magazine 2.0 now open to submissions.
• New YA Releases in August.
• Gore Vidal (1925-2012).

Cracklescape by Margo Lanagan

August 1, 2012 Links and Plugs

Interviews and Profiles

• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Julia Rios and Stina Leicht (podcast).
• The Functional Nerds interviews Madeline Ashby (podcast).
• The Qwillery interviews Lou Morgan.
• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Seanan McGuire.
• CNet profiles Neal Stephenson. 
• Weird Fiction Review (Matthew Treon) interviews Brian Evenson.
• Grasping for the Wind interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Speculate! interviews Betsy Wollheim.

Advice/Articles

• Jim C. Hines on Reporting Sexual Harassment in SF/F.
• John Scalzi on Readercon, Harassment, Etc.
• JoSelle Vanderhooft on For WisCon Chronicles 7: Disability-friendly SF/F/H. 
• The Qwillery (G.T. Almasi) on The Fast American Novel.
• Pornokitsch (Jeff Norton) on Why we need to ask "What if?"
• Black Gate (Ryan Harvey) on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars, Part 8: Swords of Mars.
• The Guardian (Rick Gekoski) On the perks and pitfalls of signing books.
• Graham Edwards on Explorers, Lifeforce, My Science Project.
• io9 (Charlie Jane Anders) on Science Fiction Authors Who Could be Hollywood’s Next Philip K. Dick and 10 Upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Movie Remakes (and Why They May Not Suck).
• Justine Larbalestier on Duty of Care.
• Missions Unknown (Scott A. Cupp) on Yellow Submarine (1968).
• Marie Brennan on we can't all be the goddamned Batman.
• Frederik Pohl on Ben Bova: From Nuts and Bolts to Eternity.
• Robert J. Sawyer on Yet another Aurora Award?
• Writers of the Future 1987 Time Capsule Predictions. 
• Whatculture! Stuart W. Bedford) on The Dark Knight Rises: 20 Blunders in Chris Nolan’s Trilogy.
• Chuck Wendig on In Which I Exhort You To Care Less.

Art

• 2D Art by Sandeep Karunakaran.
• Portrait by Michael Anthony Gonzales.
• Multi-Purpose Mech by KaranaK.

News

• Launch Pad 2012 photos by Ellen Datlow.
• The 2012 Million Writers Award is now open!
• The Complete Comics Journal Joins Online Archive from Alexander Street Press.
• Webcast promotes Potter club.
• Comic Rocket now indexes 9000 webcomics.

Events

• Announcing the Tour for Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross’s The Rapture of the Nerds.
• SF in SF: John Carter.

Crowdsourced Funding

• Dagan Books - publishing weird, wicked, and beautiful books.
• Clockwork Phoenix rewards recap.

Digital Rapture edited by James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel

July 31, 2012 Links and Plugs

And we're now at Weightless Books.

Interviews and Profiles

• Buzzy Mag interviews Jo Walton (video).
• The Agony Column interviews Deborah Harkness (podcast).
• Apex Publications interviews Jennifer Pelland.
• io9 interviews Saladin Ahmed.
• JSAScribes interviews Sarah Langan.

Advice/Articles

• Electric Velocipede (John Klima) on A Remembrance of the Future.
• The New York Times (Colson Whitehead) on How to Write.
• Catherynne M. Valente on Concerning Readercon.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Essay in the New Haven Review: The Art of the Literary Fake (with violin).
• Fantasy Book Critic (Andrew Gordon) on The Literary Odyssey of Ilona Andrews.
• Smart Pop Books (Heather Swain) on A Supernatural Love Story.
• Rachelle Gardner (Shawn Smucker) on 5 Tips For Making a Living as a Writer.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher: E is for e-books.
• Janice Hardy on In the Beginning: Which Type of Opening Works Best?
• Gollancz (MD Lachlan) on the particular perils of historical fantasy.
• Black Gate (Howard Andrew Jones) on Genre Prejudice.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on A Writer's Audience: Important or Not?
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on Histoires à dormir debout Marcel Schneider (1913-2009).
• Cheryl Morgan On Harassment Policies.
• Farah Mendelsohn on How con-runner politics work.
• World SF (Tim Maughan) on Science Fiction Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed.
• Bare Bones e-Zine (Jack Seabrook & Peter Enfantino) on Batman in the 1970s Part 29: January, February and March 1974.
• The Functional Nerds (Catherine Russell) reviews vN by Madeline Ashby.

Art

• This Blog Rules on 25 Stunning Alternate Movie Posters.
• Dragons Lair by Ironshod.
• Fantasy by Michael Anthony Gonzales.
• Laughing Squid on Salvador Dali & His Surrealist Artwork Get a Batman & Joker Makeover.

News

• Hobbit films will be a trilogy Peter Jackson confirms.
• Announcing T L Costa.
• Announcing the Futuredaze Authors.

Crowdsourced Funding

• Unstuck: New Literature of the Fantastic and the Surreal.
• Antiquities and Tangibles: A Short Fiction Collection.

Events

• Stephen Baxter signing Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice.

Electric Velocipede #24

July 30, 2012 Links and Plugs

My anthology Lauriat: A Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Anthology is now available as an eBook.

Interviews and Profiles

• The Roundtable Podcast interviews Seanan McGuire.
• Cosmos Magazine (Ajai Raj) interviews Marianne de Pierres.
• Literary Rambles interviews Natalie Dias Lorenzi.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe. 
• Tiger Beatdown interviews Neesha Meminger and Ibi Zoboi. 
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (podcast).
• Omnivoracious (Stephanie Reid-Simons) interviews Clive Barker.

Advice/Articles

• Margo Lanagan on Private Reading, Public Places.
• Jim C. Hines on Why I Cancelled my Reddit Q&A.
• Adrienne Kress On being considered a Fake Geek Girl.
• Susan J. Morris on What I Mean By “Consider Your Audience”.
• Farah Mendelsohn on Launchpad 2012, Laramie, Colorado.
• Joshua Palmatier (Jon Sprunk) on Jon Sprunk.
• Staffer's Book Review (Douglas Hulick) on in the Trenches.
• Suvudu (Maurice Broaddus) on Faith in the Fantastic.
• Smart Pop Books (Karen Traviss) on Driving GFFA 1 Or How Star Wars Loosened My Corsets.
• Tor.com (Niall Alexander) on An Ode to Jasper Fforde: Introducing His Works and Worlds.
• Alex Bledsoe (Michael Underwood) On Influences.
• SFX on Top 10 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Teddy Bears.
• Flavorwire (Emily Temple) on 10 Graphic Novels That Would Make Awesome TV Shows.
• Starship Reckless on Those Who Never Got to Fly.
• BBC (Paul Rincon) on A home from home: Five planets that could host life.
• BBC News Magazine on A Point of View: Would you want to live forever? 
• Justine Larbalestier on Writing to the Market.
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Dialogue Attribution.
• Huffington Post (Andrew Kessler) on Why You Should Be More Interested in Mars Than the Olympics.
• James W. Harris on The Chinese Should Be Writing Some Great Science Fiction About Now!
• Locus (Paul Di Filippo) reviews Super-Science Fiction.

Readercon

• Genevieve Valentine on Readercon: The Bad and the Ugly, Readercon: The Verdict, Updates on The Readercon Response.
• Under the Beret on The Readercon Thing.
• Readercon on Statement from the Readercon Board of Directors.
• Matthew Cheney on An Unenforced Policy Is Worse Than None.
• Lynne M. Thomas on Why I won’t be attending Readercon this year as planned. [rant] and Readercon follow-up: still not going.
• Nick Mamatas on The Readercon Creeper and Readercon speaks!
• File 770 on Readercon Bans René Walling for 2 Years.
• Elizabeth Bear on what is the sound of one heart breaking? and if every angel's terrible why do you watch her sleep?
• Ekaterina Sedia on That Readercon Thing.
• Veronica Schanoes on Open letter to the Readercon board and Letter/petition to the Board of Readercon.
• Cogitationitis on I don't know what to think...
• Clarkesworld on Very disappointed.
• Sam Henderson on Are you freakin' kidding me?
• Nicholas Kaufmann on Not Cool, Readercon — Part 2.
• Livia Llewellyn on Oh, Readercon: NO.
• Rose Fox on "This is the opposite of what I wanted".
• Brit Mandelo on Readercon. 
• Jaym Gates on No Tolerance Doesn’t Always Mean NO Tolerance.
• Mike Allen on Readercon.

Art

• Harry Potter Ilustrations.
• Concept space scenes by Henry Pashkov.
• Battle Armor Suit Mark 4 Gunfighter by Henry Pashkov.
• Starship Factory by Andree Wallin.
• Wasteland – scorpitron 2.0 by Andree Wallin.
• The Moebius Passage by `tigaer.
• Landing at dusk by ~Aeon-Lux.
• New World by Ken Barthelmey.
• Time Ladies: Adorable Gender-swapped Doctor Who.

News

• Saturn Award Winners Announced.

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