• New Weird News:
  • In honor of the publication of The New Weird anthology, editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer are hosting a contest. Tell them your "new, weird" story and you could win one personalized copy of each anthology they edit between now and 2010. See contest rules for details.
  • Read a sample of The New Weird with Paul Di Filippo's "Festival Lives" (PDF Link). [via Locus Online]


• Neil Gaiman wants you to vote on which of his books should be made freely downloadable. Will it be American Gods, Anansi Boys, Coraline, Fragile Things, M is for Magic, Neverwhere, Smoke & Mirrors, or Stardust? [via Boing Boing]


• Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net:
  • "Watch the Sky" by James H. Schmitz (1962)
  • "Faithfully Yours" by Lou Tabakow(1955)
  • "Blind Man's Lantern" by Allen Kim Lang (1962)


• Cohenside interviews Lou Anders, editor of Pyr, the Science Fiction and Fantasy imprint.


• Winners of the 2007 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards have been announced.


• David B. Coe, Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy are group-blogging at Magical Words, which has just been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.


• Bloggasm's Simon Owen has been conducting interviews with magazine editors as research for a long feature article centered around the profitability of online SF magazines and whether they'll ever be able to replace the pulps. The latest article, The rise of the genre ezine: Will it ever find a profitable model? features input from Ellen Datlow.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday February 11, 2008 at 12:05 AM
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