February 3, 2009 Links and Plugs

Thankfully, I didn't break the Internets.

• Please support the Shirley Jackson Awards Fundraiser with its aptly titled Lottery. It's only costing you $1 (feel free to buy more!) and you get to win prizes such as books or keyboards signed by Neil Gaiman.
• Check out Cat Rambo's interview with Nalo Hopkinson over at the Nebula Awards (which I didn't break I tell you!).
• Larry Novel Nolen interviews Brian Evenson.
• Here's the first speculative fiction story published for the year (I think) by a Filipino author: "Teaching a Pink Elephant to Ski" by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
  
• Here's the Table of Contents to John Joseph Adams's upcoming Federations.
• Locus Magazine's 2008 Recommended Reading List.
• Lilley Press has an call for submissions when it comes to novellas and short novels for Valentines 2010.
• Bookspot Central has a Jacqueline Carey "reloaded" Q&A an essay as well as a Race and Science Fiction article by Sarah Zettel.
• Over at Storytellers Unplugged, here's a couple of interesting articles: One Author’s Commentary on Promotion & the Net and The Muse and The Marketplace.
• Over at Mental Floss, Found: A Vampire Graveyard.
• Janet Reid on having a bio ready at hand.
• Booksquare on No Petitions, Just Action.
• Brian Slattery on Who Gets to Write Reviews?

Oh, and here's a book you should check out. I promise you, it'll be a quick read:

Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow