August 14, 2009 Links and Plugs

Hopefully I'll be at Yvette Tan's (no relation) book launch tomorrow at Megamall Powerbooks, 4 pm. And aside from Worldcon envy, I also have Gencon envy.

This week's controversy revolves around John C. Wright's More Diversity and More Perversity in the Future!

Interviews

• Flatmcrooked interviews Emma Straub.
• Annalee Newitz interviews Ellen Datlow.
• John Ottinger III interviews Laura Anne Gilman.
• Yeti Stomper interviews Cory Doctorow.
  

Advice/Articles

• American Short Fiction Blog on Ten Tips to Landing That Writing Residency.
• Nick Mamatas on Mind-blowing Influences?
• Tim Holman on The Chart of Fantasy Art.
• Pradipta Sarkar on How not to impress a publisher.
• Follow the Reader on The Rise of Libraries in an ‘e’ world of Books?
• Dave Goldberg on Time-Traveling for Dummies.
• Steven Grant on genre and mainstream in comics.
• The Angry Black Woman on I’m about to be a jerk on the Internet or RaceFail Goes To WorldCon.
• David Barnett on What's wrong with being a hack?
• Karen Burnham on Non-Fiction for SF Fans.
• James Enge on Metabloggery.
• NK Jemisin on The Map Thing.
• Nathan Bransford on Book Publishing Glossary.
• William Shunn on Uncorrecting the ellipsis character.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Time.
• Rachelle Gardner on Social Networking in 15 Minutes a Day.
• John B Rosenman on Possibilities.
• Juliette Wade on Three-person conversations.
• Pimp My Novel on Genre-Specific Sales, Part 4 of 8: Science Fiction.
  

News

• National Writers Union Opposes Google Settlement.
• McSweeneys Columnist Winners.
• Byatt attacks novelists who use real-life characters.
• Sony Plans to Adopt Common Format for E-Books.

Random book plug:

Xenopath by Eric Brown