April 30, 2009 Links and Plugs

Off to the Pulp Summer Slam so I need to make this quick (I only have 30 min. to write/research instead of the two-hour daily time sink). If I don't make it back alive, well, you'll know because of the lack of posts...

Interviews

• Mur Lafferty interviews John Kessel (podcast).
• Bitten by Books interviews Jim Butcher.
• Matt Staggs interviews Erol Otus.
  

Advice/Articles

• SF Signal Mind Meld on Gods by the Bushel.
• Rae Bryant on Taboos and Tropes: Part II “Rhetoric and Writing About Rape”.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Finch from Inception to Interior Layout.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on How to Communicate the Importance of a Modern Web Strategy to Skeptical Clients.
• Jim C. Hines on How Many Books do you Have to Sell?
• M-Brane SF on Save the Semiprozine Hugo.
• The Rumpus on The World’s Foremost Consultant on the Future of Publishing.
• Diana Rowland guestblogs at SciFiGuy.
• The Book Publicity Blog on Sending review copies of books to bloggers.
• Stuart Jeffries on The joy of exclamation marks!
• Charlie Stross on “Where do you get your ideas?”
• Margaret Ronald on Editing, or, Do I have spinach in my teeth?
• Maria Schneider on Words to Retire.
• Janet Reid on Why I Love Twitter and Pitch sessions suck, it's true; yet, you can make them worse.
• Sally MacKenzie on Some Thoughts on Choosing an Agent.
• Bent on Books on The Agent Who Knew Too Much.
• Casting the Bones has The Fiction Writer's Resource.
• Mark Waid on Covers, A Basic Primer.
• Mike Brotherton on Language Lessons and Authorial Intent: Science and Race Online.
• Janice Hardy on Inquiring Minds Want to Know.
• Adrienne Kress on Agents Abroad.
  

News

• Science fiction author Ian R Macleod wins the 2009 Arthur C Clarke Award.
• Authors can delay decision on online books: U.S. judge.
• Brandon Sanderson novel Warbreaker available for download.
• Asimov's and Analog Readers' Awards.

Here, have fun:

Prador Moon by Neal Asher