January 11, 2010 Links and Plugs

It's a good thing I started making a database of fiction/poetry published in local publications The Philippines Free Press and Philippine Graphic because I just spotted my first "anomaly": someone made a simultaneous submission to both! (And was published within one week of each other.)

Interviews

• Hour of the Wolf interviews John Joseph Adams (radio).
• The New Yorker interviews Nalo Hopkinson.
• Boomerang Blog interviews Margo Lanagan.
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Laura Anne Gilman.
  

Advice/Articles

• Rich Horton's 2009 Summaries: Aurealis, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.
• Rachel Swirsky on For Everyone Who Recently Objected to Referring to Women Writers as Girls and “We know he’s busy, but why didn’t she clean the house?”, thoughts on challenges faced by female writers.
  
• Catherynne M. Valente on Winpunk.
• Nancy Fulda on Reluctant Readers.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Booklife on Support For Your Writing.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Writing While The House is Messy.
• Vandana Singh on Magnetic Musings.
• Brenda Clough on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Trademarks.
• Chris Dolley on Things Your Writer’s Group Never Told You.
• Justine Larbalestier on Covers.
• Mike Brotherton on Release the Internet Krakens!
• Juliette Wade on Alien Languages - how foreign would they really be?
• Andrew Wheeler on Quote of the Week: Book Reviewers and Behold! There Is a Straw-Man Argument, and It Is Good!
• Naomi Novik On Anachronisms and The uses of fairies and fire.
• Nicola Morgan on Multiple Submissions.
• Sean Wallace on The Definition of "Fantasy" and Fantasy Magazine.
• Cory Doctorow on Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll.
• Shawn Speakman on Trust Your Dreams: Back Up Your Work.
• Theo on The ebook revolution.
• Kim Malo on Ratings.
  

News

• Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association 2010 Book Awards.
• SFWA, NWU, and ASJA on Google Books Settlement.
• Locus Magazine internships.
• Jay Lake Receives John W Dalmas Award.
• The Preditors & Editors Readers Poll.
• Restoration of Lost Scientology Materials Complete.
• Overhauled Lou Anders site.
• Goblin Fruit Winter 2010 issue is out.
• Suvudu and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction join forces!

Check out Anna Tambour's review of this anthology.

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction selected and translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy, edited by Rakesh Khanna