Another long, long list...
- In case you still haven't gotten your interview fix for the week (pssst, read Gavin Grant's awesomeness here), check out Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu at the Nebula Awards.
- While you're there, you might as well check Aliette de Bodard's A Basic Introduction to Inca Mythology.
- Honestly, this is the coolest YouTube video ever. On a side note, our goal is to get 100,000 people to watch various Small Beer Press YouTube interviews: Elizabeth Hand, John D. Berry, Eileen Gunn, Alan DeNiro.
- Honoel A. Ibardolaza (nicknamed HAI) is one of the Philippines's kick-ass artists and he's running a 2000-word fiction contest. Send in those dragons!
- Jessica Faust on The BookEnds Author-Agent Agreement.
- Need a morale boost when it comes to writing? Read Edward Champion's Stay Writing. Email him even.
- Time Magazine has their top ten list and here's the Top 10 Fiction Books and the Top 10 Children's Books.
- Meanwhile, Edward Champion has his own Top Ten Books of 2008 as well.
- More lists: Salon Book Awards 2008 and some Author Picks (including Kelly Link's favorite books).
- A fantastic podcast you must simply listen to is Rick Kleffel's interview with Burton Raffel where they talk about the perils of translation.
- Need help with names? Mary Robinette Kowal has some useful links (thanks Mary!): Character Name Sources and Place Name Generators.
- K. Tempest Bradford on The Plight of the Clueless Writer.
- Here's an article on The State of Horror in North Carolina. Features quotes from John Parker, Alexandra Sokoloff, John Kenneth Muir, and Richard Dansky.
- Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year: Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
- Whee! Book View Cafe stories are now available at Anthology Builder.
- Jason Stoddard on The Burden of the Modern Science Fiction Writer. SF Signal and Jeremiah Tolbert share their thoughts on the subject.
- Douglas Cohen on The David Gemmell Legend Award.
- Jim C. Hines's funny Writing: The RPG (Part 2).
- Check out Edward Champion's Essay A Year in Reading (The Year in Essays).
- Fantasy Magazine has a chat with Guy Gavriel Kay.
- Last but not least are some photos of the Expanding Bookcase. (It's the bibliophile Transformer.)
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