SF Tidbits for 2/4/10
By Charles Tan |
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at
12:05 am
Interviews/Profiles
- Fantasy Literature interviews Katie MacAlister.
- The Agony Column has a tribute to Kage Baker (podcast).
- Neth Space interviews Joel Sheperd.
- John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Katharine Beutner.
- Jason Sanford interviews David Backer of Fiction Daily.
- Gail Z. Martin intervews Walter Hunt and Simon R. Green (podcasts).
- SciFi Cover-to-Cover interviews Daniel Suarez.
- The future and You interviews Gregory Benford.
- ArtOrder asks “Can I Be a Cover Artist?” Responses from Lou Anders, Todd Lockwood, Kate Irwin, Ralph Horsley, Mike Vaillancourt, and Irene Gallo.
News
- From PS Publishing: New Gene Wolfe novel, The Sorcerer’s House, for pre-order, Secret Histories price-cut, postage rates capped, and much more!
- The Fiction-Writing Directorate. (via Amal El-Mohtar)
- Submissions are officially open for Issue #2 of Survival By Storytelling Magazine.
- The Preliminary Stoker Ballot.
- Apple Orders Change in the Stanza eReader Application.
- Resnick & Malzberg’s “Dialogues” to be collected in a book by McFarland.
Articles
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Dozois anthologies, 2009.
- Jay Lake on The folly of buying used books as a protest against the publisher and Amazon and the Price of Silence. (An index of Jay’s Amazon/Macmillan links.)
- Mary Anne Mohanraj on Response to comments two entries ago.
- Jeff VanderMeer on E-Books and Issues of Entitlement.
- Bloggasm on Tor authors express worry over their careers because of Macmillan/Amazon dispute.
- Cheryl Morgan on Further Amazon Thoughts.
- Indie Author on Amazon v. Macmillan: Authors, Are You Backing The Right Horse?
- Genreville On Publishing and the Modernization of the Hunch.
- Hal Duncan on Notes from New Sodom: The Kerspindle Kerfuffle.
- Margaret Ronald on How much would you pay?
- Charlie Stross on Information, Freedom, Flame-bait.
- Leyla Aker on Yukikaze, More Than “Plane Porn”.
- The Mad Hatters on What is the Weirdest Book You’ve Ever Read?
- Wizard of the Coast on FR Authors Speak: Unexpected Talents.
- Shawn Speakman on Question: Freewriters vs. Outliners.
- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff on The “Rules” of Writing.
- Rachelle Gardner on Should You Have a Book Trailer?
- Diana Pharaoh Francis on Writing Companions.
- Stroppy Author on How orphaned is an orphaned work?
- Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: The Frankendraft.
- F. Paul Wilson on Creating a series hero.
- Pimp My Novel on If They Use These Names, I Want Royalties.
- Ripley Patton on The Sir Julius Vogel Award in New Zealand.
- The Science of Fiction lists The Thirty-Five Sexiest Men of Science Fiction.
- Teleread on The real agenda of Apple’s ebook partners: death to ebooks.
Related posts:
- SF Tidbits for 7/18/08
- SF Tidbits for 5/15/07
- SF Tidbits for 11/24/09
- SF Tidbits for 12/14/08
- SF Tidbits for 10/30/09
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It also might be worth noting that the second issue of Survival By Storytelling is a theme issue. And our theme is Steampunk!