• Jeffrey A. Carver dishes on the back story behind his first Star Rigger novel, Seas of Ernathe


• Interviews:
  • @The Dead Robots' Society: A. Lee Martinez.
  • Like the fiction of Ruth Nestvold? Speak German? Have I got an interview for you! [via Ruth Nestvold]
  • Rick Klaw interviews Joe R. Lansdale. [via Bibliophile Stalker]


• In SFWA News (Have you checked out their redesigned website?):
  • The 2009 SFWA business meeting is scheduled for the World Fantasy Convention.
  • The Andre Norton Award jury is seeking candidate submissions.


• Angry Robot has signed Aliette de Bodard & Lavie Tidhar: Aliette will write Servants of the Underworld, an alternate-world fantasy/crime novel, and 2 other books set in the same world; Lavie will write the steampunk adventure The Bookman and its sequels.


• Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Freelancer's Survival Guide is now available on one handy page.


• Table of contents for Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions by Patricia C. Wrede.


• Jeff Somers has launched a website to support his new Avery Cates book, The Eternal Prison. The website features an old-school, Zork-like text-adventure.


• John Birmingham is thinking about writing small iPhone novels.


• Joseph Mallozzi reviews his book club selection this month, Elizabeth Moon's The Speed of Dark.


• Guardian Books Blog says: Enough with the vampire fiction!


• Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are on tour to promote their new book new book, The Winds of Dune. Love that cover.


• @Listverse: 15 Fascinating Lesser-Known Science Facts, like "The cracking sound of a whip is actually a sonic boom." Wuh-pah!


• @AMC: 5 Comic Book Artist Movies Even Freakier Than Superman's Shuster.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday August 05, 2009 at 12:08 AM
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