SF Tidbits for 12/8/09
Interviews/Profiles
- Pyr SF interviews Joel Sheperd (Sasha).
- Storytellers Unplugged Q&A with Sarah Monette.
- Bibliophile Stalker interviews Tim Waggoner.
- From 1983, a fascinating audio recording of Bruce Coville interviewing Isaac Asimov.
News
- Strange Horizons is looking for First Readers.
- All 8 classic seasons of Red Dwarf are available for purchase & download on iTunes.
- Famous Monsters of Filmand Returns to Print.
Articles
- Margaret Atwood on Ten Gifts to Give Beginning Novelists.
- Publisher’s Weekly on The Funniest Reasons Customers Reject Books.
- Barnes & Noble Book Club on Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Last Decade (2000 – 2009). (via Diana Gill)
- Nick Kauffman on Author Solutions Strikes Back, Claims It’s Doing It All For YOU.
- Jim C. Hines on Short Fiction Pay Rates.
- Rachel Swirsky on Bad Credits Will Not Help You Get Published.
- Ann Leckie on So, the scuffle-du-jour is Scalzi’s scolding.
- OF Blog of the Fallen on Interesting forum discussion about “fantasy,” or more specifically, about a certain list of “fantasy”.
- Jason Sanford on Ebook releases help overall book sales.
- Pimp My Novel on You Can’t Spell “MWA HA HAAA” Without “MWA”.
- Nick Wood on SF in South Africa.
- Crotchety Old Fan on Startling Stories on the Premiere of Electro-Pulp Video Magazine.
- The Independent says Forget Earth – let’s move to Mars!
- Scott Sigler on Why Star Trek Should Be More Like Football.
- SciFi Wire lists 12 great sci-fi moments from The Big Bang Theory.