SF Tidbits for 1/14/10
- The Agony Column interviews Night Shade Books’ Jeremy Lassen (podcast).
- BSC Review interviews Adam Bertocci.
- Writing It Out interviews Janice Hardy.
- Fantasy Magazine interviews Carol Emshwiller.
- Paul McAuley profiles James Blish.
- SFX interviews J.J. Abrams about Lost And Fringe.
News
- Attention Artists! The deadline to submit work for Spectrum 17 is January 22nd!
- The spring issue of Concatenation is now up
Articles
- Vandana Singh on Gender, Writing, Science.
- Rich Horton’s Summary: Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, 2009.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on The Google Settlement and Ursula’s List.
- Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Top Ten Things I Can’t Do with My Kindle.
- Rachelle Gardner on Why Authors Need Agents.
- Juliette Wade on Narrative Distance Comes Full Circle.
- Jason Sizemore on The Day in the Life of an Editor.
- Adrienne Kress on Positivity.
- Dean Wesley Smith on Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing: Agents Know Markets.
- Jeff VanderMeer on Indiebound and Finch Video: In Praise of Independent Bookstores.
- Ekaterina Sedia On exoticism of language.
- Scott Edelman on SFWA and My Dream Census.
- China Miéville on Why the Na’vi Are Making Me Blue (Essay).
- Shawn Speakman on China Miéville Hates On CGI.
- Lillian Csernica on The Senses and Emotional Intensity: Expert advice from the Romance genre.
- Nicola Morgan on It was a dark and stormy night.
- Janice Hardy on I Love it When a Plan Comes Together (Part Two, Part Three).
- Jeff VanderMeer In Praise of Independent Bookstores.
This blog (and this Tidbits section in particular) seem to be less about SF now and more about the craft of writing and getting your book published.