Over at Omnivoracious, Jeff VanderMeer interviews Gregory Frost, who talks about his new book Shadowbridge and responds to the scathing review it received by John Clute. "...the book does exactly what I want it to do and I'm sorry he was expecting something entirely different"
A Dribble of Ink has stumbled upon the cover blurb for the next (and long-awaited) book in George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons.
The blog Write Damn Now interviews David D. Levine under the interesting constraint that his answers be five words or less. "Q: Why do you write fiction? A: I love to make things."
Nancy Kress gives her take on the preliminary Nebula-nominated novelettes. (See also: her take on the short stories.)
Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: "The Golden Judge" by Nathaniel Gordon (1955) and "Scratch Monkey" by Charles Stross (1993)