SF Tidbits for 4/16/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Oregon Live (Jeff Baker) profiles Jay Lake.
• Locus interviews John Picacio.
• Omnivoracious (Jeff VanderMeer) interviews more Hugo Nominees.

Events

• Attention Unagented Writers! Open Door events from Angry Robot Books and Strange Chemistry.

Articles

• Strange Chemistry on New YA Releases for April 2012.
• Book View Cafe (Kelly McClymer) on Writing in the Digital Age: The World is Your Oyster, Literarily.
• Book View Cafe (Sherwood Smith) on Life, Play, and Art.
• JM McDermott on Where do the artists and authors come from? Does anyone keep track of these things?
• John Scalzi on My Thoughts on Book Tours.
• Kat Howard on Stealing sand from the hourglass.
• Loldwell on Videogame Chidlren’s Books.
• SF Novelists (S.C. Butler) on It’s Fantasy, Dammit, Not SF!
• Fantasy Faction (Ben Galley) on Believable Fantasy Character Design.
• Bibliophile Stalker on Blogging the Hugos 2012: Best Short Story.
• Granta Magazine (Toby Litt) on The Reader and Technology.
• Salon.com on The books we give away.
• Wired UK (James Bridle) on Literature needs much more than ebooks.
• TeleRead on Scalzi, Stross, Shatzkin on DoJ, publishers, and Amazon.
• Time (Laura Hazard Owen) on Amazon-owned Audible: Hey Authors, Want $20 Million?
• Movies.com asks Where the Heck Is Our 'The Forever War' Movie?

Art

• 35 Awesome Fantasy Wallpaper Collection.
• Watchmen poster series.
• 10 Gorgeous Minimalist Superhero Illustrations.
• Digital Art by Henning Ludvigsen.
• Epic Star Wars LEGO Diorama Plays the Theme Music.
• (Kenner Inspired) Star Wars Poster.
• Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Hawkeye, Galactus and More.
• Bookworm comics.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “Chronicle” by arco2002.

More Fun Stuff

• Trailer: Documentary about 1970's northern California Star Trek conventions.
• An Incredible Collection Of Realistic Character Tattoos.
• The World’s First Cookie Flavored Lickable Wallpaper.
• Vader and Luke Playing Baseball.

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