February 17, 2010 Links and Plugs

I got Walking the Tree and The World House in the mail (at first I thought it was a bomb). How awesome is that?

Also, here are the rules to have dinner with Neil Gaiman in March here in Manila.

Interviews

• The NSW Writers' Centre interviews Margo Lanagan. (via AurealisExpress)
• Willamette Week interviews David Levine.
• Apex Book Company interviews Peter Straub.
• The Dragon Page interviews Nina Munteanu (podcast).
• Book Banter interviews David Grann (podcast).
• Grinding to Valhalla interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy interviews Steve Eley (podcast).
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Alexey Pehov.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Ursula Vernon (podcast).
  

Advice/Articles

• Rich Horton's Summary: Non-US/Non-UK anthologies, 2009, Talebones, 2009, Baen anthologies, 2009.
• Jay Lake on Is all fantasy political?
  
• Matt Staggs on But I thought it’d be like in the movies!
• Sterling Editing on So many kinds of edits!
• Wendy Lee on "Kitchen Chinese": The Editor-Book Love Story.
• Claire Light on Why Aren't Women and POC Submitting Their Work?
• Nick Mamatas on O RLY?
• Joshua Bilmes on Viewer Mail.
• Mitch Wagner on Our Avatars, Ourselves.
• Connie Willis on Blackout (Part 4).
• Daryl Gregory on preparing for a reading.
• Kassia Krozser on My Sense of Entitlement.
• Cory Doctorow on Amazon and Macmillan: Price discrimination versus demand elasticity.
• Doret Canton on Books Being Television Shows.
• Randa Abdel Fattah on Writing & Identity.
• Rachelle Gardner on Saying No After I've Requested Your Manuscript and A Day in the Life.
• S.C. Butler on One Writer’s Take on Amazonfail.
• Marie Brennan on Emasculation not required.
• Juliette Wade on Country Identity.
• Janice Hardy on Query Me This and Did I Just Say That?
• Grasping for the Wind on 5 General Tips for New Book Bloggers.
  

News

• Sword & Sorceress 25 - New Guidelines - Reading Period Announced.
• William King returns to Black Library in major deal.

Australian SpecFic Snapshot 2010

• Margo Lanagan
• Rowena Cory Daniells
• Justine Larbalestier
  
• Glenda Larke
• Karen Miller
• Paul Collins
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Jason Fischer
• Narrelle M. Harris
• Gillian Polack
• Richard Harland
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• Alisa Krasnostein
• Amanda Rainey
  
• Dion Hamill
• Trudi Caravan
  
• Ben Peek
• Angela Slatter
• Thoraiya Dyer
• Keith Stevenson
• Marianne de Pierres
• Damien Broderick
• Garth Nix
• Juliet Marillier
• Tehani Wessely

Happy Book Release Day:

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