SF Tidbits for 5/8/12
- HWA (Ron Breznay) interviews Christopher Conlon.
- @Locus Roundtable: Mike Allen and F. J. Bergman.
- The SFFAudio podcast welcomes Charles A. Tan.
News
- 2012 Children's Choice Book Award Winners.
- FUNDED: Locus Photo and Ephemera Archive Project.
- Two Classic Michael Moorcock Novels Back In Print.
- Coming Soon (available for preorder): Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods.
Articles
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Give It to Me Straight: The Cardinal Rules of Critiquing for Writers.
- Rachelle Gardner on What If My Agent Doesn’t Like My Next Book?
- The Enchanted Inkpot (Ellen Booraem) on Spring YA fantasy covers take wing!
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on How To Check The Ego & Be A Better Artistic Citizen With Fellow Creatives.
- Read This Book Dammit on Best Fantasy for Pre-Teens.
- Juliette Wade on Managing and prioritizing multiple writing projects.
- Clarion Blog (Michèle Laframboise) on My Big Fat First Novel.
- Fantasy-Faction (Paolo Chikiamco) on World Tour of Wonderment: The Philippines – Part Two.
- Tor.com (Ryan Britt) on 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Original Ghostbusters.
- Inkpunks (Wendy Wagner) on Feedback, please!
- Weird Fiction Review (Ann & Jeff VanderMeer) on The Weird: An Introduction and The Weird: Approaches and Foci.
- Paul S. Kemp on A Nomenclature of Book Reviewers.
- Lynne M. Thomas (Tansy Rayner Roberts) on What Epic Fantasy Could Learn From Batman.
- Richard Parks on Five Things I Wish I’d Known Then.
- Helen Lowe on Out of Middle Earth: Reality & Imagination—New Zealand’s Landscape Influence On The Wall of Night World.
- Brian Ruckley on Digging for (Modestly Priced) Gold in the Kindle Book Store.
- The Fictorian Era (Dean Wesley Smith) on Stop Being In A Hurry.
- Jamie Todd Rubin on An amusing note about Robert Silverberg’s The Alien Years.
- Book View Cafe Blog (Steven Harper Piziks) on Autistism and Superheroes.
- Barebones e-zine on Batman in the 1970s Part 17.
- Smart Pop Books (Nick Mamatas) on Giving the Devil Her Due.
- Pornokitsch on Introducing Worlds of Tomorrow.
- Grady Hendrix looks at The Mind Behind the Eye by Joseph Green, The Little People by John Christopher and The Last Canadian by William C. Heine.
- The Observer on Fan fiction promises to be a rich vein for publishers. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Kirkus Book Reviews on 10 Must-Read Fiction Books for Spring.
Art
- Concept ships by Christopher Bonura.
- Comic Book Covers.
- Mondo’s Conan poster.
- @CGHUB: Halo 4 Concept art by Sparth. [via Cruzine]
- @CGHUB: “Fleet” by Slawomir Maniak.
- @CGHUB: “Get Bent” by Ben Hickling.
- @CGHUB: “Clash” by Kekai Kotaki.
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