November 24, 2009 Links and Plugs

Be sure to drop by the World SF News Blog. Lavie's gearing up for some content as of late.

Interviews

• SF Signal interviews Larry Eisenberg.
  
• Fantasy Dreamer's Ramblings interviews John Brown. (via Tor/Forge)
• The Agony Column interviews Peter Straub (podcast).
• Tor.com interviews Garth Nix.
• BSC Review interviews Joe Abercrombie.
• Tor/Forge interviews Hideyuki Kikuchi.
  

Advice/Articles

• Teresa Sousa de Almeida on Science Fiction in Portugal: The Drawing Up of a Territory.
• Jim C. Hines on Why My Books are Not My Babies.
• Genreville on Self-Publishing Done Right.
• The Creative Penn on Update on the Amazon International Kindle and What It Means For Authors.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Writer Despair for a Cheery Monday!
• The Nebula Awards Blog on “International SF” and Problems of Identity.
• Will Hindmarch on Giving It Away.
• Rachel Swirsky on The Virtues of Vampires.
• Liam Sharp on Getting it ‘out there’.
• Strange Horizons on Universal Language? Authors from the Apex Book of World SF Discuss the Global Reach of Speculative Fiction.
• John Picacio on Renovation Steps Up.
• Edward M. Lerner on Clever, these nanobots.
• J.C. Hutchins on What If? and What Happens Next? Two secret weapons for aspiring writers.
• Rachelle Gardner on Change or Die.
• Elizabeth Bear on In love as it is in war.
• Juliette Wade on Not hiding information that readers need.
• John Scalzi on Quick Note on Self-Publishing.
• Nicola Morgan on Whose Writing Advice Will You Trust?
• Mark C Newton on 7 Reasons Agents Stop Reading Your First Chapter.
• Nathan Bransford on The Top 10 Myths About E-Books.
  

News

• Best Books of 2009, Airport Edition.

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