September 21, 2009 Links and Plugs

Happy birthday to Damien G Walter and George R. R. Martin (apparently, my new claim to fame is that I share the same birthday with two awesome writers...)

And for your speculative fiction Philippines, the navy spies on a national artist... and gets caught!

And Persnickety Snark interviews Filipino YA book blogger Tarie.

Now back to your scheduled programming...

Interviews

• SF Signal interviews JC Hutchins.
• Rae Bryant interviews Nancy Kress.
• Science Fiction and the City interviews Jeff VanderMeer.
• Genre TV (video) interviews Anna DeStefano, Leanna Renee Hieber, Jack Ketchum, Charles Ardai, Nicholas Kaufmann.
• Rick Kleffel interviews Michael Kurland (podcast).
  
• Ken Livingstone interviews Iain Banks.
• Sofanauts guests include Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremiah Tolbert, and Amy H Sturgis (podcast).
• Jonathan Moeller interviews Deborah J. Ross.
• Missions Unknown interviews Fred Duarte, Jr.
• Slice of SciFi interviews Robert J. Sawyer (podcast).
• Assorted Nonsense interviews John Scalzi (podcast).
• Annalee Newitz interviews Paolo Bacigalupi.
  

Advice/Articles

• Maura McHugh on Horror Wants Women To Scream But Not Talk. Related: Nadia Bulkin on Women and horror, some thoughts and numbers.
  
• Mary Robinette Kowal on Precogs and Ray Guns Have No Place in True SciFi.
• Alison Flood on Science fiction author hits out at Booker judges.
• Michael Dirda on A Dark World's Brilliant Visionary.
• Jim C Hines on Anthology Invites.
• Literacy, Families, Learning profiles Shaun Tan.
• Jeremy Lassen on A Question of email etiquette.
• Dreamhaven Books & Comics on Long Loud Silence.
• Mispeled on Self-Publishing, E-books, and Legitimacy: Fin.
• Rose Fox on Pro Tip!
• Self Publishing Review on How to Read an ISBN.
• Odyssey Workshop on Writing Question: What Comes First?
• Betsy Lerner on The One That Got Away.
• Mary Pearson on Bells, Whistles, & Books: Going Paperless.
• Rachel Aaron on Say Uncle (Sam) – A Cautionary Tale.
• Vonda N. McIntyre on Hunting the Wily Cover Blurb.
• Janet Reid on You Owe Me.
• Agent Kristin on Why Agent Honesty Is Overrated.
• Kate Elliott on More on Writing Women in SFF.
• Deborah LeBlanc on The Long and Short Of It.
• Justine Musk on In the Dark: Thoughts on Tackling the Anxiety of Writing Fiction.
• Juliette Wade on Character description: who? when? how?
• Nicola Morgan on Breaking Writing Habits and Why Do I Write at All?
  

News

• 2009 British Fantasy Awards Winners.
• Espresso Book Machine Adds Google Books, More Stores.
• Call for submissions: The Mammoth e-Book of Mindblowing Mars SF, Volume II.

How can I not plug my buddy Jeff VanderMeer (especially after the recent Mayweather-Marquez match):

Finch Limited Edition by Jeff VanderMeer