December 8, 2008 Links and Plugs

Lots of incoming links amassed over the weekend:

• I plugged it over the weekend but it's worth noting again. Vera Nazarian needs your help and you can check out the community Help Vera! which has various items for sale. Buy yourself or your friends a gift for Christmas, at the same time helping out Vera.
• Speaking of gifts, check out the Voltron of indie publishing: Night Shade Books and Electric Velocipede. What's better than a subscription to the magazine? A subscription and two books!
• Check out this poster from Small Beer Press.
• Still don't know what to get for Christmas? Jonathan Strahan has a new meme entitled Books for Christmas. Here's his recommendations. Here's Jay Lake's. Spread the word.
• The Horn Book's Best Books of 2008.
• The Best Translated Books of 2008 Fiction Longlist.
  
• Shanna Swendson on the Seven Stages of Publication Doom (Loop).
• Jim C. Hines on the publishing recession.
• Cat Rambo gives advice on Internet Security.
• Lou Anders on the Author/Editor Relationship.
• John C. Wright gets interviewed by John Joseph Adams.
• Paul Krugman's The Theory of Interstellar Trade.
• The Poetry Foundation on Science Fiction Poetry.
• Update on Proposed Google Books/ Author’s Guild Settlement.
• Holt Uncensored's Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do).
• 10 Common Typography Mistakes.
• J.M. McDermott on using Excel spreadsheets for outlining and brain storming.
• Adrienne Kress's take On Editing.
  
• Check out the November issue of Estronomicon.

And for your book plug, check out this beautiful novel:

Desideria by Nicole Kornher-Stace