October 28, 2009 Links and Plugs

Finally made it to the George Optical V-Mall branch. Unfortunately, been straining my eyes too much so I need to relax them in order to get a proper check-up so no reading for me for the week (eep! time to go on a podcast download frenzy). Don't expect much next week...

When it comes to personal plugs, I have a new essay at BSC Review: eBook Pricing – The Chicken or the Egg Dilemma.

Oh, and since there are a lot of retired tabletop RPG gamers who are also authors, someone should host a one-shot game for them. Perhaps during a con?

And important plug for the day is John T. Unger's situation: Imitator Sues Me to Overturn Copyrights: Please Help Defend My Art.

Interviews

• Dragonmount interviews Dragonmount (Wheel of Time website) creator Jason. (via Tor Books)
• Dappled Things interviews John C. Wright.
• Fanboys of the Universe interviews Steve Berman.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast).
• Ellz Readz interviews Roxanne Rhoads. (via Literary Escapism)
• Bitten by Books interviews Raine Delight. (via Literary Escapism)
• Marshall Payne interviews Fred Coppersmith.
• Genreville interviews Charles de Lint.
• Locus Magazine interview excerpts with Connie Willis.
• Suvudu interviews Michael Wm. Kaluta.
• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Murder by Death.
• John Scalzi profiles Nicole Peeler.
• Borders Blog interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Shilpa Agarwa.
• Pimp My Novel interviews Shelli Johannes.
• Details interviews Brandon Sanderson. (via Tor/Forge Blog)
  

Advice/Articles

• Michael Stackpole on One Example of Why Intellectual Property Rights are Important.
• Mark Coker on Do Authors Still Need Publishers? (via Larry Ketchersid)
• David Hewson on So why do you want to write? (via Sarah Pinborough)
• Online Universities on 101 Book Blogs You Need to Read.
• Ying Compestsine on Ghosts to My Rescue.
• Megan Crewe on Story Psych: A Semi-Scientific Look at What Makes a Good Story.
• Jaymee Goh on The Roundtable of DOO- I mean, of Race and Steampunk.
• Angela Slatter On Reverse Engineering for Writers.
• Amy Sterling Casil on The Voice That Killed Sci Fi As We Knew It.
• Courier Journal on Teen books lure grown-up eyes. (via Justine Larbalestier)
• Rachelle Gardner on The Process of Getting an Agent.
• Richard Dansky on A Herd of Writers? Of Course I’ve Heard of Writers.
  

News

• Spectrum 17 Call for Entries.
• Scary Angry Robot mask for Halloween!
• Moxyland Short Story Winners.
• Wizards of the Coast Novel Writer's Guidelines. (via Paul S. Kemp)
• Smartphone eBook Readers Multiply.

Book release day:

By the Mountain Bound by Elizabeth Bear