SF Tidbits for 11/16/09

By Charles Tan | Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 12:05 am

Interviews/Profiles

Michael A. Ventrella interviews Jay Lake (Green).
The Wall Street Journal interviews Cormac McCarthy. (via Nadia Bulkin)
MakerCulture interviews Cory Doctorow (video).
The Author Hour interviews Anne Rice, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card (podcast).
Betrayals interviews Lilith Saintcrow.
Globo TV interviews Catherine Asaro (video — starts at 3:25).
Oprah interviews Stephenie Meyer (video).
TVO interviews Cory Doctorow (video).
Fantasy Book Critic interviews James Barclay.
AT Joseph Mallozzi’s blog: Author Adam-Troy Castro Answers Reader Questions.

News

Sarah Monette gets a new publisher and a new name.
Jonathan Strahan has a Call for Stories: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume Five.
Nebula Nomination Period has opened. (Here are Jason Sanford’s picks.)
There’s a new issue of Concatenation posted.
Congratulations to Book View Cafe…1 year old and bigger and better than ever!

Articles

Shweta Narayan on Geekery (babbling about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis).
Genreville on In Defense of Dystopia.
Nadia Bulkin on How women turn to misogyny.
Damien G. Walter on Bookshops are not Churches. But.
The Onion on Alternate-Universe Sci-Fi Channel Show Asks What Would Happen If Germany Lost War.
Odyssey Workshop on Writing Question: When to get a critique.
Jason Sanford on How cover art influences book sales (at least, for one picky reader).
Kameron Hurley on 100 Words.
Edward M. Lerner on Of Sequels and Series.
Rachel Aaron on A consumer’s take on why ebook readers still have a long way to go.
Editorial Ass on Women never write anything important or spectacular anyway.
Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Burnout.
S.C. Butler on The Future of Bookstores?

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