SF Tidbits for 1/22/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Fast Forward interviews Scott Edelman (video|audio).
• Fantasy Magazine interviews Willow Fagan.
• Topzine interviews Jay Lake (Czech language).
• Dallas News profiles Charlie Huston.
• @Deatils: Caprica‘s Alessandra Torresani.
• From 11/09: Joe R. Lansdale on Edgard Allan Poe. [via Sanford Allen]

News

• Steampunk Tales: Issue 5 gets released.
• Jeff Somers’ Avery Cates novels have been picked up by Sony Pictures.  (See SF Signal reviews of The Electric Church and The Digital Plague).

Articles

• Rich Horton’s Summary: Shiny, 2009.
• Shweta Narayan on About Clarion applications.
• Susan Hill on No, amateurs are not ‘Just as good as…’
  
• Gord Sellar on Attention Bloomsbury: The World Is (Mostly) Not White.
• Publisher’s Weekly on Bloomsbury to Rejacket ‘Magic Under Glass’. (via Ellen Datlow)
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Cover Controversy.
• Linkspam on Coverfail: Linkspam #1. (via Delux Vixens)
• Monica Valentinelli on Why Do Some Horror Authors Write about Rape, Incest and Abuse?
• Author 2 Author on Shedding Some Light on Foreign Rights. (via Matt Staggs)
• Matt Staggs on Book tours, traditional and otherwise: are they for you?
• Alisa Krasnostein on You know what’s fun to read in the debate on gender disparity in SF?
• Jay Lake on The larval stages of the common American speculative fiction writer.
• Sean Wallace on Sexism and Reviews and Anthologies.
• SFWA’s Google Settlement Online Panel.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: The Rules Are Changing.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on American Idol and The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Surviving Someone Else’s Jealousy.
• Chuck Sambuchino on Would You Pay More For An Agent?
• Janice Hardy on First and A Lot More Than Ten.
• Cherie Priest on Control.
• Dan Abnett on Hi, I’m Dan, and I’ll be your God-Emperor of Mankind.
• Nicola Morgan on The End is Nigh.
• Jon Gibbs on Is Your “But” Too Big?
• Pimp My Novel on The 6… Er, 500 Million Dollar Man.
• Hal Duncan on Oh Dear Dog.
• Nadia Bulkin on People of the Book.
• Jason Henninger on Literary and Speculative: A Rant.
• The Intern on Why you really don’t want to get published (part 2).
• John Scalzi’s Thoughts on the Future of 3D Movies.
• Ellen Datlow’s photos from the January 20 KGB reading featuring David Anthony Durham and Lev Grossman.
• J.J. Abrams sets a plot arc and end-date for Fringe. [via SciFi Scanner]
• SciFi Squad on The Top Ten Sci-Fi Experiments Gone Wrong.
• SciFi Wire on 10 sci-fi TV shows we wish would get prequels like Caprica.
• Classic photo: Taking a break during the filming of Metropolis.
• This recording is counting down The 100 Greatest SFF Novels of All Time

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