February 24, 2010 Links and Plugs

Eeek. Lots of book releases today including Diana Rowland, Ari Marmell, Anton Strout, Stacia Kane, Mark Henry, and Amber Benson.

Interviews

• Omnivoracious profiles Margaret Atwood.
  
• The Agony Column interviews Jedediah Berry (podcast).
• The Interstitial Arts interviews Connie Toebe.
• Marvel interviews Marjorie Liu.
• Wicked Little Pixie interviews Anton Strout.
• Locus interviews Jo Walton.
  

Advice/Articles

• Nick Mamatas on Things sure are better in the slums, said the queen!
• Rich Horton's Summary: Chapbook Anthologies, 2009.
• SFWA on How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: Joss Whedon, I’m calling you out.
• Dr. Kirtland C. Peterson on A “Fantasy Matters” Follow-Up: How “Real” is Hogwarts?
• Pam Jenoff on The Publicity Paradox.
• Alethea Kontis on Dear HWA.
• Cheryl Morgan on Part of Which Community?
• T.J. McIntyre on Ten Rules for Writing (...at least for this week).
• Charles Stross on Common Misconceptions About Publishing: #1.
• Varian Johnson on Battling Time Suck.
• David B. Coe on How I Know I’m a Writer.
• Mark C. Newton on Fund Your Own Writing Project.
• Pimp My Novel on Websites Wednesday.
• The Intern on In Defense of Book-Thieving: A Confession, and a Request.
  

News

• The Speculative Ramayana Anthology: Call For Submissions.
• RIP Jim Harmon.

Juno Books is running a contest here:

Demon Possessed by Stacia Kane