SF Tidbits for 2/8/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Fantasy Worlds interviews Vera Nazarian.
• Flipping Pages for All Ages interviews Rachel Caine.
• Innsmouth free Press interviews David Conyers.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: James Knapp.
• Odyssey Podcasts features Jack Ketchum.
• Gerry Canavan has posted video of Kim Stanley Robinson speaking at Duke University.
• Michael Moorcock on J.G. Ballard.

News

• Open Call for Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff.
• SciFiDimensions

  is going on hiatus. [via Locus Online]

Articles

• Aliette de Bodard on Writing cultures: insider vs. outsider.
• SFWA on Are You a Published Author? Now You Can Tell the World!
• Joshua Palmatier on Writing: Disappointment.
• Chris Dolley on Writing: Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa Fashion.
• Sherwood Smith on Writers on Writing-Emotion.
• Ari Marmell on The Write Way and the Wrong Way.
• Juliette Wade on Folklore, Parable and Metaphor.
• David Hartwell On Kage Baker.
• Janice Hardy on One Step Forward and Two Steps Back.
• Sarah Rees Brennan on Movies & Sex.
• Brenda Clough on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Surrender, Dorothy!
• Nicola Morgan on A Pointy Point About Queries.
• Paula Guran on Verso Survey, Further Remarks & Some Personal Musing.
• Twelfth Planet Press on The sky is not falling – the end is not nigh and Your debut book is the greatest gift you can ever give your readers.
• Rob Donoghue on The Price of Books.
• Carrie Laben on Hey, remember when I used to post long, half-thought-out posts on big topics?
• Jay Lake on Amazon, Gillette, cross-subsidies and supply chain integration.
• Teresa Nielsen Hayden on The “agency model” as I understand it.
• Anna Tambour on Amazon and the Pipeline.
• Michael Stackpole on Authors Can Be Stupid: Doing the Ebook Math and I Just Want to Write.
• Dean Wesley Smith on Michael Stackpole. Read His Blog.
• Charlie Stross on Amazonfail round-up.
• John Scalzi on A Technical Thing re: Amazon and My Tor Books.
• Visions of Paradise on Least Favorite Authors of SF.

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