SF Tidbits for 5/13/12

Interviews and Profiles

• Tor.com (Jorge Aguirre and Rafael Rosado) interviews Raina Telgemeier.
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Barbara Ashford.
• The Coode St. Podcast with Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.
• Flames Rising interviews James L. Sutter.
• Suvudu interviews Amrita Acharia.

News

• 2012 Parsec Awards Nominations Are Live!
• Meteorite Fragments Searched For In Sierra Nevada Mountains.
• Burial Day Books releases Gothic Blue Book, The Haunted Edition.
• More Doctor Who Series 7 Details. [via Thanks, Eoghann]
• The Avengers breaks $1 Billion worldwide.
• REMINDER: Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology being funded via Kickstarter.

Events

• H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and CthulhuCon. [via Lovecraft eZine]
• Larry McMurtry announces “The Last Book Sale”. [via Lou Antonelli]

Articles

• Book Life Now (Marcus Ewert) on Escaping Fight-or-Flight: Three Tricks for Sidestepping Writer’s Block.
• Inkpunks (Erika Holt) on Why do we write?
• Jeff VanderMeer on Entry Points into Fiction: Text Shows You How to Read It.
• The Qwillery (Lisa Renee Jones) on Creating a paranormal hero.
• Tor.com (Liz Bourke) on Sleeps With Monsters: Failure to Communicate (An Ongoing Problem).
• Book View Cafe Blog (Sherwood Smith) on Adults who love Young Adult Literature.
• Helen Lowe on What I’m Reading.
• The Qwillery (A.M. Dellamonica) on Where Inspiration Flows.
• Nancy Kress on SF Ladies Lunch.
• Ian Sales on Looking backwards to the future.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Vacation in the Golden Age, Episode 38: August 1942.
• NY Times (Julie Bosman) on In E-Reader Age of Writer’s Cramp, a Book a Year Is Slacking – .
• Ars Technica on We’re all mutants now. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Universe Today on Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Guardian (Sita Brahmachari) lists on 10 books that take you travelling. [via Lit Lists]

Art

• The Birth Of Black Widow.
• @ItsArtMag: Crucible of Gold Cover by kerembeyit.

More Fun Stuff

• Free Excerpt: Earth Unaware by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
• The Nerdist Channel Presents “Weird S#!t From Japan”: A Noodle Story.
• Princess Leia Hoodie with Integrated Hair Buns.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #112 – “Breakwinder” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• Beware the Hairy Mango #113 – “What’s the Matter with Calves Today?” by Matthew Sanborn Smith.
• CAT-AT Imperial Walker.
• Dalek Planter.
• TMNT Lunch.