March 30, 2009 Links and Plugs

It's already Monday here...

Interviews

• Matt Staggs interviews Mike Allen.
• Nicholas Kaufmann interviews Paul G. Tremblay.
  

Advice/Articles

• Grants & Awards: Your Guide to Writing Contests.
• Richard Dansky on Tricky Dick and the Empty Cartons: Thoughts on Signifiers.
• Scrivener's Error on What's wrong with the publishing industry.
• Stephen Woodworth on The Neverending Story: The Highs and Woes of Writing a Series.
• James A. Owen on Sometimes Working Things Out Works Things Out.
• Sean Wallace on The Debate over Online Vs Print Submissions.
• Joshua Palmatier on First Person POV.
• Wil Wheaton on 2009: The Year Print-on-Demand Goes Mainstream.
• The Bookish Dilettante on Twitter: A Little Birdie Told Me (& it's telling all your customers too!).
• Richard Eoin Nash on Not enough, guys, no offense but not nearly enough.
• Janus Andersen on Danish Science Fiction Between 2004 and 2007.
• Douglas Cohen on Publisher/Editor Dynamics.
• Lynn Chu on Google's Book Settlement Is a Ripoff for Authors.
• Wendy S. Delmater on Rejectomancy.
• Publishing Trends on Twitter Isn't Stupid. But publishers need to be smart about using it. Here's how.
• Mark Waid on The Dictionary is Wrong.
• Guy LeCharles Gonzalez on When the Internet Flapped its Wings.
• Matthew Kressel on Sybil's Garage No. 6.
• Readersroom on RaceFail ‘09 - Why Horror Ignores the Elephant.
  
• Odyssey Workshop on Director's Corner: Developing Your Skills.
• Brenda Cooper on A Story of Engagement.
• Sarah Lyall on Odd Prize: Judging a Book by Its Title.
• Shira Lipkin has an excellent Quote of the Day.
• Matt Staggs on Writing Fiction.
• Jonathan Strahan on The All-Time Top 40: The Pusher, John Varley (#42).
• James Enge on Nebunovels II: The Final Nebulation.
• Magellan Media on The e-galley investment.
• Liz Thomson on Advantage Amazon? Publishers react to proposed new terms.
• Janice Hardy on Not My Type and Luck Be a Lady.
• Moonrat on Hedging Your Bets (or, Why, God?!).
• Justine Larbalestier on Productivity Commission draft report.
• Janet Reid on Make the Right Kind of Mistakes.
• PJ Nunn on Calendars and such.
• Robin Agnew on Changing of the Guard.
• Alison Janssen on The Dreaded Moment of Suck.
• David Steffen on Google Alerts (glad I could be an example...).
• Jennifer Mattern on Top 10 Free Online Tools for Writers - As Chosen by YOU!
• Rachel Aaron on It is an amazing time to read fantasy.
• Diana Rowland on Waiting Games.
  

News

• The 2009 Scribe Awards Nominations.
• Penguin has an Invitation to bloggers to get to know Penguin Publicity/Marketing groups.
• Matt Staggs has an An open call for fantasy games of all kinds.
• The SFWA has a new mission statement.
• The 2nd Annual Spinetingler Award Nominees.
• The Finalists for the Most Popular Foreign Author in the Galaxy Awards.
  

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