SF Tidbits for 1/18/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The Author Hour interviews Carol Berg, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Dennis L. McKiernan, and Diana Pharaoh Francis (podcast).
• The Wenatchee World interviews Kay Kenyon. (via Pyr Books)
• Hour of the Wolf interviews writing group Altered Fluid (radio).
• WebbWeaver interviews Jeremy C. Shipp.
• @Agony Column:  A 2009 Interview with Graham Joyce.
• @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Robert Jackson Bennett.
• @LA Times: Bill Willingham.

News

• The Law Finally Catches Up With Faux Literary Agent/Film Producer Robin Price.
• Aus Spec Fic Carnival January 2010.
• The Million Writers Award needs genre judges.
• Poe’s home, for now: Quoth a cousin, ‘Baltimore’.
• SFX’s Biggest God-damned SF & Fantasy Poll In The Universe is now open.
• Ursula Le Guin’s Petition Letter to the Judge of the Google Book Settlement.

Articles

• Lee Harris on Hugos Voting Controversy.
• The Wall Street Journal on The Death of the Slush Pile. (via Arcaedia)
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards on Are Translations Old-Fashioned?
• Outer Alliance on Queer Friendly Conventions.
• Jim C. Hines on File-sharing Follow-up and Friday LEGO.
• Rachel Aaron on The Writerly Life.
• Deborah J. Ross on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Gossip.
• Charlie Stross on Writing Tools.
• Editorial Ass on Authoring in the New Decade.
• Paula Guran on Dear Wall Street Journal: The Slush Pile is NOT Dead.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Professional Jealousy.
• Bev Vincent on Aspiring Writers.
• Juliette Wade on Question Your Assumptions.
• Janice Hardy on Get Back (Story) Where You Belong.
• Jason Sanford on Simultaneous submissions: Should you sim sub or not?
• Mark C. Newton on Piracy.
• Odyssey Workshop on Writing question: Character arc.
• Erik Larsen on eComics.
• Sean Wallace on A Word to the Wise: Authors and Rejection Responses.
• Ari Marmell on A Ranger, a Wizard, an Elf, and a Halfling Walk Into a Tavern…
• Fabio Fernandes on An Apple Has Two Names.
• J.R.R. Tolkien makes Bookstove’s list of The Five Best Selling Works of Fiction.  Twice.
• David John McDonald (a.k.a. David Tennant) wrote an awesome foreword to the Doctor Who specials on DVD.