April 27, 2010 Links and Plugs

Another 7-day work week and a couple of obligations on my end (family dinners that you can't decline, interviews, etc.), so no essay for me in the next two weeks.

Interviews

• ActuSf interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
• Temple Library Reviews interviews J. Robert King.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews Naomi Novik.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: J.A. Pitts.
• David Steffen interviews M.E. Ray.
  

Advice/Articles

• Matthew Cheney on Patriarchy Studies.
• Jason Henninger on Novel Disfunction.
• Brett Sandusky on Innovation Through Experimentation.
• Steven Harper Piziks on What an Agent Does.
• Cory Doctorow on In praise of SFWA’s Grievance Committee.
• Editorial Anonymous on Children vs Adults.
• Rachelle Gardner on Does Your Agent Have to Love Your Book?
• Stroppy Author on How to read a publishing contract (6).
• Juliette Wade on Dialogue that Matters.
• Janice Hardy on Setting Up the Tension.
• Sanfeng on We are Here, We are Together —— An Introduction to New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Xin Huan Jie), a Chinese SF/F Fanzine.
  

News

• Peter Watts Receives Suspended Sentence.
• Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm.
• The Indigenous Literacy Project.

Guest-edited by Jonathan Strahan:

Subterranean Spring 2010