February 2, 2010 Links and Plugs

Had a 10-hour nap since I got a cold. Seems to be working well for me so far.

Also, one of my favorite favorite writers, KJ Bishop, has a story up at Subterranean: "The Heart of a Mouse".

Interviews

• Temple Library Reviews interviews Holly Black and Ted Naifeh.
• BookBanter interviews Cherie Priest (podcast).
  
• The World SF News Blog interviews Roberto Mendes.
• The Agony Column interviews Charlie Huston (podcast).
• Vast Horizons interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Robot 6 interviews Chris Roberson.
• Suvudu interviews some bloggers on George R. R. Martin.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast interviews Brian Dunning.
• Grasping for the Wind interviews Stephen Deas.
• Clarkeworld interviews Jeffrey Ford.
  

Advice/Articles

• Rich Horton's Summary: Original Anthology Series, 2009.
• HarperStudio on Gen Y Asks “Why Not”. (via Ami with an i)
• Ari Marmell on Fun and Games.
• Mindy Klasky on Attacking by Retreating.
• David Niall Wilson on Revision, and How it Changes a Fella…
• Juliette Wade on Point of View: more personal than pronouns.
• Andrew Wheeler on A Modest Proposal for E-Book Pricing.
• Janice Hardy on Talking About the Past.
• Nicola Morgan on Pitch Your Hook.
  

News

• The Best Horror of the Year Volume Three-call for submissions.
• 2010 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award Finalists.
  

Kage Baker Tributes

• Norilana Books.
• JonathanStrahan.
• Andrew Wheeler.
  

Amazon vs Pan Macmillan

• Scott Westerfeld on Zinc Blinked.
• Cheryl Morgan on An Alternative to Amazon? and War Continues: No One Dead (Yet).
  
• Charles Tan on The eBook Wars: Macmillan vs. Amazon.
• Jay Lake on A few links and notes on Amazon vs Macmillan and Amazon's Kindle readers, and the capitulation letter.
  
• Mary Anne Mohanraj on An Ongoing, Erratic Diary.
• Scrivener's Error on Tangent: AmazonFail (version 3.21).
• Matt Cheney on Alternatives to Associating with Amazon.
• Marie Brennan on Amazon vs. Macmillan: my verdict.
• P.N. Elrod on Bunches of Books Yanked from Amazon.
• Daniel Abraham on Amazonfail: One response.
• Jeremy Lassen on Amazon grudgingly caves in.
• Shawn Speakman on Amazon Obviously Loves The iPad!
• Booksquare on Amazon, Macmillan, Agency Models, and Quality (Oh My).
• The Idea Logical Co. on The wild weekend of Amazon and Macmillan. (via Booksquare)
• Fiction Matters on Amazon Flanks – The First Battle of the eBook Wars. (via Booksquare)
• Media Bistro on Amazon Update Updated: Macmillan "Optimistic" That Sales Will Resume Soon.
• Sarah Zettel on Amazon’s Response to Macmillan.
• Agents Weigh in on Amazon.
• Charlie Stross on Amazon Surrenders.
• Rachelle Gardner on Publishing Smackdown: Let the Games Begin.
• John Scalzi on All The Many Ways Amazon So Very Failed the Weekend.
• Nathan Bransford on The Kindle Missile Crisis.
• Pimp My Novel on Round One: Macmillan.

Here's my preemptive strike against Jay Lake, Lavie Tidhar and Filipino artist Bryan Sola:

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