January 28, 2009 Links and Plugs

The sky is falling! Not.

• My livejournal is flooded with blog entries on Realms of Fantasy closing after its April issue. Commentary from Nick Mamatas.
• Website/community WoTMania will also be closing down.
• Podcast commentary on the publishing industry from The Agony Column which includesa roundtable discussion with the likes of Laurie King, Jeremy Lassen, Marcus Cato, Chris Watson, Elizabeth Martinez, and Rick Kleffel. |MP3|
  
• On more positive news, Viz will be releasing a new Science Fiction imprint: Haikasoru (those familiar with Katakana can probably guess the allusion).
• Here's advice from Greg van Eekhout.
• More writer-ly advice from Mur Lafferty: Are You Ready for Some Tough Love?
• Still more advice from Nick Kauffman: Ha Ha, People Are Things!
• Richard Dansky on reviewing: Eloquence in Ascribing Rampant Suckage.
• Couple of interesting posts over at Black Gate: How to Read 462 Books a Year and A Rather Cranky Post on Verisimilitude in Fantasy.
• Lots of goodies over at the Green Man Review including various "Best Of" picks from the likes of Elizabeth Hand, Ellen Datlow, Tim Pratt, and Tobias Buckell. Also check out the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror edition.

Here's a novel for fans of Magic: The Gathering:

Agents of Artifice by Ari Marmell