May 30, 2011 Links and Plugs

I just want to plug the Coode Street podcast interview with Karen Lord which I think is a very important discussion (dropped calls aside).

EDGE Publishing also has one of its titles up for the Alberta Readers Choice Award, Cinco de Mayo, which you can vote for. 

Interviews

• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Leah Cypess.
• The Outer Alliance Podcast Outlantacon/Gaylaxicon tour episode. 
• My Bookish Ways interviews Andrew Mayer.
• Alpha Geek interviews John Scalzi (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Alisa Krasnostein on The trick is … there is no trick.
• Lawrence Schimel on 23rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards report.
• Wired (Hugh Hart) on 10 Books That Will Fry Your Mind This Summer.
• Inkpunks (Andrew Romine) on Scared? Nervous? Good.
• Book View Cafe (Ursula K. Le Guin) on To Save Free Enterprise, Books Must Die.
• Book View Cafe (Laura Anne Gilman) on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 21.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on The Problematic Prologue.
• Rachelle Gardner on How Do You Learn to Write?
• Storytellers Unplugged (Richard Dansky) on Seven Questions That Need To Be Asked About Writing About Writing.
• Janice Hardy on Real Life Diagnostics: One More Look at Openings.
• Nicola Morgan on What, You Didn't Know I Was a Twitter Trend-Setter?
• Blackgate (Theo) on In search of the ideal reader.

News

• 2011 Writers/Illustrators of the Future Awards.
• Knapp Wins 2011 Compton Crook Award.

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