SF Tidbits for 4/17/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Ellen Datlow.
• Books That Go Bump in The Night interviews Helen Lowe.
• World SF Blog interviews Fabio Fernandes.
• Fantasy Matters (Jen Miller) interviews Dana Fredsti.
• Suvudu (Matt Staggs) interviews Dana Fredsti.
• Patrick Rothfuss interviews Mary Robinette Kowal.
• The Skiffy and Fanty Show interviews Sherwood Smith (podcast).
• Firefox news interviews John Shirley.
• Supernatural Underground (Kim Falconer) interviews Malian from Helen Lowe’s The Wall of Night.
• Keith Brooke interviews Eric Brown.
• OregonLive interviews Jay Lake (Written + video).

News

• Women in SF&F Month: Week in Review, Week 3 Guests, and Giveaway.
• Interns for Prime Books!
• AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review is the newest addition to the list of SFWA qualified markets.
• Gollancz acquires new Stephen Hunt trilog.
• Kickstarter: Help Alphashock by Sam Best get a cover.
• J.K. Rowling Starts Her Potter Encyclopedia.
• Walter Jon Williams’s Aristoi Now Available as an eBook.
• REMINDER: 50% Off Sale at Night Shade Books – Plus Lifetime Subscription Giveaways.

Events

• Tuesday, April 17th in New York City: Master Cartooning with Gahan Wilson at MoCCA.
• April 24th at the Conference Centre, British Library: Genetic Fictions: Genes and Genre. [via Farah Mendlesohn]

Articles

• Rachelle Gardner on Are You in this for the Long Haul?
• Chuck Wendig on Prepping For The Publishing Doomsday.
• Janice Hardy on Prep Work: Ways to be a More Productive Writer, Part 2.
• Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Making Book Crds For Your Book Table to Increase Ebook Sales.
• Juliette Wade on How do you convey nature’s profusion in a secondary world?
• Kat Howard on Be brave enough to make your own monsters.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Five Steps to Finding Your Voice.
• Inkpunks (John Remy) in Delicious Prose.
• Theodora Goss on Learning to Travel.
• 40kBooks (Angela Slatter) on Short Stories Are about Identifying an Essence.
• A. Lee Martinez on Boned.
• David B. Coe on On Writing: Characters to Love, Characters to Hate.
• Wired.com (Bruce Sterling) on Showtime: Golden Age — Somewhere. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Guardian (Cory Doctorow) on Protecting your Facebook privacy at work isn't just about passwords.
• John Scalzi on DRM On My Books.
• The Night Bazaar (Paul Tobin) on Steamdrunk.
• A Dribble of Ink (Jeff Salyards) on Embedded With the Enemy?
• Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Songs of the Earth by Elspeth Cooper.
• Black Gate (John ONeill) on New Treasures: The Library of America’s A Princess of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes.
• The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log on Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, A Princess of Mars: Burroughs’ heroes a century on.
• Topless Robot on 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Mad Max.
• Barebones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 14: November and December 1971.
• Make Use Of lists 8 Movies Every Geek Should Watch (And Love).
• Snarkerati lists Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time.

Art

• Concept ships by Khang Le.
• Concept robot art by Khang Le.
• Marooned Poster Update.
• @ItsArtMag: “Cland_city” by Joseba Alexander.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “Monsters, Inc.” by Bruce Yan.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “Ed Wood” by Dean Martin.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “The Shining” by red-corner.

More Fun Stuff

• Novel Excerpt: Steve Rasnic Tem’s Deadfall Hotel.
• Sword and Podcast #98 – Stop Saying Lady Cave!
• Ellen Datlow’s Full Honorable Mention List for Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4.

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