January 14, 2010 Links and Plugs

Not spec fic related but Sam Henderson posts various ways to help the victims of the Haitian quake. Also, Cheryl Morgan's Tired of These Stupid “Jokes”.

Interviews

• The Agony Column interviews Jeremy Lassen (podcast).
• BSC Review interviews Adam Bertocci.
• Writing It Out interviews Janice Hardy.
  

Advice/Articles

• Vandana Singh on Gender, Writing, Science.
• Rich Horton's Summary: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2009.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on The Google Settlement and Ursula’s List.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Top Ten Things I Can’t Do with My Kindle.
• Rachelle Gardner on Why Authors Need Agents.
• Juliette Wade on Narrative Distance Comes Full Circle.
• Jason Sizemore on The Day in the Life of an Editor.
• Adrienne Kress on Positivity.
• Dean Wesley Smith on Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agents Know Markets.
• Jeff VanderMeer on Indiebound and Finch Video: In Praise of Independent Bookstores.
• Ekaterina Sedia On exoticism of language.
• Scott Edelman on SFWA and My Dream Census.
• China Mieville on Why the Na’vi Are Making Me Blue (Essay).
• Shawn Speakman on China Mieville Hates On CGI.
• Lillian Csernica on The Senses and Emotional Intensity: Expert advice from the Romance genre.
• SF Signal MIND MELD: What's the Best Story to Never Win a Hugo?
• Nicola Morgan on It was a dark and stormy night.
  
• Janice Hardy on I Love it When a Plan Comes Together (Part Two, Part Three).
  

Here's a comic from my buddy Elbert Or (he's also doing the cover for my upcoming online anthology The Best Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009 [or whatever I call it by the time it's up]):

Lola: A Ghost Story by J. Torres & Elbert Or