Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Tidbits for 12/11/12

Interviews and Profiles

• The Next Big Thing with Christopher Barzak.
• Wag the Fox interviews Nicholas Kaufmann.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Heather McDougal.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Dave Freer.
• The Galaxy Express interviews Erica Hayes.
• Ginger Nuts of Horror interviews Thana Niveau.
• TVGuide.com quotes Lynne M. Thomas.

News

• Recovering Author Tom Piccirilli Has New Book, Still Needs Our Help.
• World Fantasy Judges Announced.
• A Free E-Book from Lavie Tidhar: “Strigoi”.
• VIZ Offers Android Users Free Way to Read Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha.
• Simon & Schuster Has a New Deal With Amazon, Other Retailers.
• Free eBook Site BaenCD (Fifth Imperium) Shuts Down as SF Publisher Baen Books Moves to Sell eBooks in the Kindle Store.
• Kickstarter for NecronomiCon: The Premier Lovecraft Convention in Providence by NecronomiCon PVD.
• Sable Jak to produce full-cast audio production of C.J. Cherryh’s Foreigner.

Articles

• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Five Dos and Don’ts for Picking an Editor.
• Charles Stross (Stina Leicht) on E Ticket*.
• Juliette Wade on Some Gender-related thoughts about How to Train Your Dragon.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Nisi Shawl) on Keeping Calm and Carrying On.
• Book Life Now (Howard Andrew Jones) on The First Glimmers.
• The Qwillery (M.C. Planck) on Intergalactic Exploration.
• This is Horror on 10 Must Read Australian Horror Writers .
• Bare Bones e-zine ( by Peter Enfantino  & Jack Seabrook) on Batman in the 1970s Part 48: March and April 1977.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Felix Gilman) on A Letter from Harry Ransom.
• Tor/Forge Blog (F. Paul Wilson) on The Toughest Part of Writing Cold City.
• Tor/Forge Blog ( J. A. Souders) on Crying Bully.
• Tor/Forge Blog ( S.J. Day) on What if? Two little words that created the world of S. J. Day’s Eve of Darkness.
• Michael Swanwick on Unpublished and Doing Better Than You Think.
• Jon Sprunk on Star Wars Discussion III.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on The Water Spider.
• OpenCulture on Neil Gaiman Gives Sage Advice to Aspiring Artists (video).
• Smart Pop Books (Paul Lytle) on The Golden Shield.
• Paul McAuley on An Experiment.

Reviews

• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Geekomancy.
• Rich Horton on Strange Horizons, 2012.

Art

• Le Souffle du Temps – Where Time Winds blow by Manchu.
• Cover Reveal: Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman, design by Sarah J. Coleman.
• Halo 4 Promo Art by John Liberto.
• Conceptual Artworks by Kentaro Kanamoto.

More Cool Stuff

• Surrender Dorothy Waterball – Wizard of Oz.
• Motopia.
• Tony Stark is Tin Man.
• This Galek Must Really Hate Doctor Nermal.
• A Triumph Over Tragedy Story Preview: Duncan Derring.
• @Kirkus Reviews: Enter to win a free Kindle Fire!
• Imager’s Battalion (Excerpt).

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