November 10, 2009 Links and Plugs

There's never enough time!

On a side note, the Apex Book of World SF interview series continues with Aleksandar Žiljak. And I post my Best of 2009 Short List over at Jeff VanderMeer's blog. (It's just my short list! I still have other books to read before the year ends! And then the stories have to engage in Mortal Kombat before I pick a winner.)

Interviews

• Diana Rowland interviews agent Lindsay Ribar.
• The Electric Playground interviews John Scalzi (video).
  

Advice/Articles

• Greg van Eekhout on Hard work + talent = awesome.
• Steven Harper Piziks on What Happens in Group, Stays in Group.
• Rachelle Gardner on Giving Your Characters Life.
• Diabolical Plots on The Best of Pseudopod.
• Monica Valentinelli on Do You Know How to Sell Your Sword?
• The Huffington Post on Want To Sell Books? Start Gathering Fans. (via Pablo Defendini)
• Rachel Swirsky on Self-promoting like a self-promoter.
• Jim C. Hines on Top 10 Books of 2009 (Girls Need Not Apply).
• Nicholas Kaufmann on The Genre on the Doorstep Dead Air 2.
• Cheryl K Morgan on A Specialist Market?
• Jeff VanderMeer on Book Promotion: The Value of Acknowledging Constraints.
• The Book Publicity Blog on How to save time in book publicity.
• Janice Hardy on Golden Oldies: Ten Things to Remember if You Want to Be a Published Writer.
• The Intern on zen and the art of self-publishing.
  

News

• Under in the Mere - Original Art Sale Heads-up!
• Twitfic - For All Things Twit Fiction.
• Speculative Fiction Writers of Singapore mailing list.
• Apex Magazine and options.
• Goblin Fruit is closed to submissions until January 9, 2010.
• Fantasy Magazine will be closed to short story submissions from December 1st through January 15th.
• Clarkesworld Magazine will be closed to short story submissions from December 1st through January 15th.
• Interfiction Readings (video). (via Shira Lipkin)
• New Nebula Awards Commissioner.
• Harlequin Launches Digital-Only Publishing House.

And this just arrived in the mail: (it's just one book, double covers)

Roadkill by Robert Shearman and Sirenbeat by Tansy Rayner Roberts