@Baltimore Book & Blog Examiner: Catherine Asaro: "I've always had a close connection to both rock and classical music. I make up the stories to music, and it inspires new ideas." [via io9] (Catherine also shows her musical side in an interview with SF Site.)
@SF Site: Alex Irvine: "...one of the real problems on the horizon for American prisons is the hundreds of thousands of inmates serving long sentences." [via]
@ Nossa Morte: Ellen Datlow: "I have mixed feelings about bookstores having a ghetto area for horror. That's not where horror started out and I'd prefer it not be there now."
In the latest Sofanauts podcast (#3), host Tony Smith welcomes Jeremiah Tolbert, Gord Sellar, and Ray Sizemore.
@Suite101: Author P.J. Haarsma, who learns video game design to make The Rings of Orbis.
GalleyCat has video of Ursula K. Le Guin talking a small group of fans about Lavinia.