SF Tidbits for 1/21/10
Interviews/Profiles
- Star Wars Books interviews Paul S. Kemp.
- The Dragon Page interviews Jake Black (podcast).
- Jo Walton interviews Steven Brust.
- Robert Freeman Wexler interviews Carol Emshwiller.
- Rain Taxi interviews Brian Evenson.
- MTV interviews Tron Legacy Director Joseph Kosinski.
- The Science of Fiction interviews Absent Willow Review Editor Rick DeCost.
- Absent Willow Review interviews Jane Yolen.
- The Future And You interviews J.C. Hutchins.
- The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman’s fantasies [via Locus Online]
News
- The Horror Writers Association names recipients of Lifetime Achievement Award: Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan.
- Strange Horizons has a new blog.
- Amazon Announces 70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Publishing.
- AMC Orders pilots for a new zombie apocalypse series called The Walking Dead.
Articles
- Alisa Krasnostein on Gender and Publishing.
- Mari Ness on The Louvre, the gendered gaze, and artistic assumptions.
- Tansy Rayner Roberts on Happy Day of Awesome Posts About Gender.
- Richard White on Open Letter from a Writer to New Publishers.
- Shweta Narayan on An(other) open letter to Bloomsbury Kids USA.
- Justine Larbalestier on Race & Representation.
- Lavie Tidhar On Book Covers.
- Jim C. Hines on Covers Gone Crazy.
- Ami Greko on Kindles for All!
- Charlie Stross on The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend).
- Janet Reid on More on auto-responders cause you guys are missing the point.
- Rachelle Gardner on Email Protocol.
- Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: False Starts.
- Dan Abnett on Put everything back where you found it.
- Suzannah Windsor Freeman on Are You a Word Nerd or a Grammar Rebel?
- Cherie Priest on Authorial Control.
- Republibot asks: What Do People Think Science Fiction Is?
- Fandomania lists 8 Fictional Vampires Who Achieved Reel Immortality.
- Guradian Book Blog on Apocalypse literature now, and then.