June 15, 2009 Links and Plugs

Yay, Jeff VanderMeer calls this blog "one of the best daily sources for links, many of them genre-related." (I can retire now.) And Matt Staggs thinks I just get 2 hours of sleep every day. Maybe I should rename the blog to Bibliophile Vampire...

Interviews

• The L Magazine interviews Benjamin Parzybok.
• David Steffen interviews Alethea Kontis.
• Randolph Carter interviews Tobias Buckell.
• Metaplace Community Pulse interviews Tobias Buckell.
• Ross E. Lockhart interviews Mark Teppo.
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Melissa Scott.
• Rick Kleffel interviews Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• JA Konrath on Amazon Kindle Numbers.
• Nancy Fulda on Three Things Every Aspiring Writer Should Know.
• SF Signal Mind Meld Make-Up Test with Yoon Ha Lee.
• Mur Lafferty on I'm Me. Be You.
• Jeffrey Ford on How they tried to make me hate reading.
• Jay Lake on The Thrill of the Shelf.
• Bill Ward on Books Best Appreciated In Their Natural Habitat.
• Rachel Aaron on Editing is serious business!
• Sarah Zettel on Writing Fool's War.
• Sue Lange on Lions and Women Writers of Science Fiction.
• Charlie Stross on How I got here in the end: part two.
• Cory Doctorow keynote on Fagdagen (video).
• Nicola Morgan on Save Our School Libraries.
• Robin Agnew on Does Size Matter?
• Megan Kurashige on helpful hints for bookstore customers, part 3.
• Pub Rants on Dancing With The Stars Analogy.
• Justine Larbalestier on They’re Just Girl Books. Who Cares? and Literary Influences.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Money, Part One.
• Jonathan Strahan on Friday morning and thoughts on the future of Eclipse…
• James A Moore on You want me to change WHAT?!?
• John B Rosenman on Falling for Cliffhangers.
• Anne Rooney on Killing People.
  

News

• Lone Star Stories closing. =(
• 2009 Bram Stoker Award Winners.
  
• The Mo*Con Anthology Guidelines.
• Check out the Rejected by Clarkesworld T-shirts, mug and mousepad.
• Clarion West Write-a-thon 2009.
• Catherynne M. Valente on Fairyland and she needs help with her site.
• Check out Steampunk Tales.
• Weird Tales #353 TOC.
• Want a Free Issue of Realms of Fantasy? Blog About It!
• The How Authors Keep You Turning Those Pages panel on June 16, 2009.
• Library book amnesty hones writers' skills.
• RIP Paul O. Williams.

And check this out:

Cern Zoo edited by DF Lewis.