SF Tidbits for 2/19/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Gail Carriger interviews Blake Charlton.
• AV Club interviews Peter Straub.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Alex de Campi.
• Fantasy Book Critic interviews Jacob Asher Michael.
• Brian Ruckley answers reader questions.

Australian SpecFic Snapshot 2010

• Lee Battersby
• Trent Jamieson
• Peter M. Ball
• Deborah Biancotti
• Lucy Sussex
• Amanda Pillar
• Andrew McKiernan
• Nyssa Pascoe
• Felicity Dowker
• Jack Dann
• Kim Falconer

News

• Labyrinth Built in Honor of Joe and Kit Reed.
• First (Professional) Novel Survey.
• Apple’s Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected.
• Paizo Announces New Pathfinder Fiction Line.

Articles

• Victoria Strauss on Inspired Living Publishing: Another Vanity Anthology Scheme.
• N.K. Jemisin on Describing Characters of Color 3, OPPoC.
• The Big Money on Want To Know What a Book Really Costs? (via Booksquare)
• Kalayna Price on Written. Edited. Published. Now What?
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: It’s Not Plagiarism, It’s Mixing.
• Zetta Elliott on Race & Reviews.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Goals and Dreams.
• Kathi Lipp on How To Be a Second-Time Author.
• The Book Publicity Blog on Book publicity FAQ: book events.
• Janice Hardy on First Through Third.
• Irene Gallo on Who’s awesome? Or, Credit the Artists!
• James Wallace Harris on LibraryThing.
• Airlock Alpha asks: When Is A Movie As Good As The Book?
• John Scalzi Passes Judgment on the SciFi Cred of Inglourious Basterds.

Fun Stuff

• Free Fiction Sample @ Pyr Samples Page: 5 chapters of Empire in

  Black and Gold by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

• Ellen Datlow has posted Photos from the KGB reading February 17, 2010 featuring Daryl Gregory and Peter Straub.
• UK Trekkies stage the largest gathering of Starfleet personnel ever. [via SciFi Scanner]
• John Anealio’s SciFi JukeBox asks a bunch of folks: What Is Your Favorite “Space” Song?

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