SF Tidbits for 10/26/09

Interviews and Profiles

• Midnighteast interviews Bill Willingham.
• The Agony Column interviews Clair Light (podcast).
• Science Fiction and Other Odysseys interviews Jennifer Brozek. (via SFWA)
• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Berrien C. Henderson and Susan Shwartz.
• Salon.com interviews Jonathan Lethem.
• Jonathan Maberry interviews Del

  Howison, Joe Lansdale, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Golden, Deborah

  LeBlanc, Scott Nicholson, Ellen Datlow, Ray Garton, David Wellington,

  and Joe Nassise. (via Ellen Datlow)

• Locus Magazine interviews David J. Schwartz.
• Outer Alliance profiles Hayden Thorne.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Alison Sinclair.
• Dead Robots Society interviews Mur Lafferty and Christiana Ellis (podcast).

News

• Solaris Books’s website gets a facelift.
• Realms of Fantasy Nonfiction Department: New Column …and One Columnist Needed!
• Neil Gaiman’s Crowdsourced Fiction Story is Complete.
• ‘Night Of The Indigo’: Breaking new literary ground. (via Nalo Hopkinson)
• DayBreak Magazine Reading at WFC.
• Race and the Fantastic The 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. (via Nalo Hopkinson)
• Tor.com Announces the Steampunk Month Photo Contest!
• Publishers Delaying Electronic Editions of Major Titles.
• BookScan Bestseller Lists Come to Wall Street Journal.
• A Working Writer’s Daily Planner Preview + $4.95 DRM-free PDF.
• Author Gail Z. Martin launches Days of the Dead Blog Tour.

Lists

• Year’s Best Horror Honorable Mention Market Breakdowns.
• AMC on Ten Costumes to Make Your Halloween Fantastic.
• Jason Sanford on Don’t Panic: 42 Reasons Not to Read the New Hitchhiker’s Book.

Articles

• Mike Resnick on Pros and Cons. (via Cheryl Morgan)
• Jeff VanderMeer on The Organizational Elements of a Book Tour.
• DealNews on e-Book Readers Cheat Sheet: Amazon Kindles, Barnes & Noble Nook, jetBook, more. (via Dear Author)
• Michael Stackpole on Are Authors Really Their Characters?, Deconstructing Cory Doctorow’s “Experiment”, and What is Cory Doing Right?
• Sara Antill on It’s the End of the World as We Know It.
• SMD on Book Shopping Etiquette.
• Rich Horton on Summary: Analog, 2009.
• Megan Crewe on The Education of a Speculative Fiction Fan (and Writer)
• Elizabeth Bear on This is a story of true love and perseverance.
• James Enge on Golden Age or Silver Age?
• Matt Sturges on The Ultimate Performing Art.

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4. SF Tidbits for 5/15/08
5. SF Tidbits for 3/6/09

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