July 21, 2011 Links and Plugs

Interviews

• Mountain Xpress (Alli Marshall) interviews Ann & Jeff VanderMeer.
• Flickeringmyth.com interviews Daniel H. Wilson.
• Marianne de Pierres interviews Sean McMullen.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) interviews Matthew D. Wilson.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Stina Leicht (podcast).
• SciFi Talk interviews Brian Herbert (podcast).
• The Future and You interviews James Maxey and Jim Craig (podcast).
• Locus Roundtable podcast with Keffy Kehrli and Beth Wodzinski.
• Suvudu Take Five with Kim Harrison.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Adam-Troy Castro.

Advice/Articles

• The King of Elfland's Second Cousin reviews The Clockwork Rocket.
• Ian Sales on Is a lack of realism good for science fiction?
• Book View Cafe (Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff) on There’s a Bimbo on the Cover Verse 6: There’s a Blurb on the Cover.
• Book View Cafe (Brenda Clough) on Cover Graphics and How They Grew: How to Trash Your Writing Career.
• Juliette Wade on Creating a "realistic" costume... and implications for the means to create in your world.
• Janice Hardy on Goals! Are You Making Them Too Obvious?
• Fantasy Matters on Two Sides of the Same Coin: Magic and Technology in Modern Fantasy Literature.
• Book Banter on Too Much of a Good Thing.
• Cora Buhlert on Women writers, international writers, marginalized writers.

News

• Ellen Datlow's Readercon photos.
• Best Selling Fiction Authors Sign On to New Publishing Project Assisting Newer Authors.
• The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings presents Laura Anne Gilman and Keith R.A. DeCandido.
• Gollancz announces SF Gateway.
• 2011 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award Winner.
• 2011 Rhysling Award Winners.

Here's one from my favorite artist:

A Song of Ice and Fire 2012 Calendar illustration by John Picacio