SF Tidbits for 1/14/10

Interviews/Profiles

• 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.