December 16, 2008 Links and Plugs

Sick... again!

• I have another essay over at the Nebula Awards: Documenting Aswangs. It went up yesterday but my latest version wasn't used. Learn more about one of the Philippines's most iconic monsters.
• Here are the guidelines to the Devil's Food anthology.
• Andrew Wheeler on Things Writers Believe (But Aren't Necessarily True).
• Judith Berman on Adventure Fantasy in the Children’s Section.
• Check out Elizabeth Hand's serial Christmas novel Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol. (It's free after all.)
  
• Here's the table of contents to Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's anthology, The Beastly Bride: and Other Tales of the Animal People.
• Nick Mamatas responds to a letter Lois Lowry received.
• Paul S. Kemp on Changing attitudes toward tie-in fiction.
• Amazon staff are penalized for using sick leaves during the holidays.
• Jessica Faust on Offering Representation to Published Authors.
• Here's Cracked.com's If 'Twilight' Was 10 Times Shorter And 100 Times More Honest. While you're there, you might as well check out 5 Real Bank Heists Ripped Right Out of the Movies.
• John Joseph Adams's anthologies The Living Dead & Wastelands now available as e-books.

Here's something you want might to take a look:

Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters by John Langan