July 31, 2009 Links and Plugs

Here I was, thinking I had a unique blog based in the Philippines but apparently, another Filipino blogger, Tarie, does book reviews and interviews with YA and children's lit authors over at Into the Wardrobe.

Interviews

• Matt Cardin interviews Nick Mamatas.
• Rae Bryant interviews Lavie Tidhar.
• Edward Champion interviews China Mieville (podcast).
• Suvudu interviews Patrick Rothfuss (video).
• Mitchell Jordan interviews Shaun Tan.
  

Advice/Articles

• John Scalzi on What You Have to Give Up to Write.
• Alison Flood on When democracy fails: the Hugo SF awards.
• Abigail Nussbaum on Journalism: Are You Doing It All?
• Neil Clarke on Save the Semiprozine - Part 2.
• Mary Robinette Kowal on Why Describe Characters.
• Jim C Hines on I Hate This Part.
• Nathan Bransford on What's in a Cover?
• Jennifer Jackson on The Agent's Job.
• Tom Shone on When Novelists Sober Up.
• NK Jemisin on Describing Characters of Color, pt. 2.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on About Literary Bests.
• Phyllis Irene Radford on Conspiracy Of Shadows: Update From The Editor.
• Sharon Wheeler on What's Your Point?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Employees Part One.
• Julie Cantrell on How to Plan a Successful Book Signing.
• Janice Hardy on Upping the Stakes.
• Alma Alexander on WHAT DO YOU WANT? PART 1: (…or, rather, what DON’T you want…?).
• Pimp My Novel on The Return of Serialization?
  

News

• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #22 is out.
• Publisher's Weekly for Sale.
• New Worldcon site.
• City libraries shut out of broadband stimulus money?

Last book plug for the month:

The Lees of Laughter's End by Steven Erikson