SF Tidbits for 2/17/10

Interviews/Profiles

• The NSW Writers’ Centre interviews Margo Lanagan. (via AurealisExpress)
• Willamette Week interviews David Levine.
• Apex Book Company interviews Peter Straub.
• The Dragon Page interviews Nina Munteanu (podcast).
• Book Banter interviews David Grann (podcast).
• Grinding to Valhalla interviews Kevin J. Anderson.
• The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy interviews Steve Eley (podcast).
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Alexey Pehov.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Ursula Vernon (podcast).
• @The Chronic Rift: Laura Anne Gilman.
• Fantasy Literature interviews C.S. Friedman.
• The Mad Hatter gang-interviews Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Mike Carey, Tim Lebbon, David Wellington, & Jon Maberry (The New Dead).
• Australian SpecFic Snapshot 2010
  
• Margo Lanagan
• Rowena Cory Daniells
• Justine Larbalestier
• Glenda Larke
• Karen Miller
• Paul Collins
• Tansy Rayner Roberts
• Jason Fischer
• Narrelle M. Harris
• Gillian Polack
• Richard Harland
• Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• Alisa Krasnostein
• Amanda Rainey
• Dion Hamill
• Trudi Canavan
• Ben Peek
• Angela Slatter
• Thoraiya Dyer
• Keith Stevenson
• Marianne de Pierres
• Damien Broderick
• Garth Nix
• Juliet Marillier
• Tehani Wessely

News

• Congratulations to John Picacio for winning Boskone 47’s Best of Show with his triptych for Jeffrey Ford’s Well Built City.
• Sword & Sorceress 25 – New Guidelines – Reading Period Announced.
• William King returns to Black Library in major deal.
• James Cameron to Write Avatar Novel.
• Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein heads to the big screen.
• EVENT: As part of the Fantastic Fiction free

  reading series, Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present Michael Shea &

  N. K. Jemisin Wednesday March 17th, 7pm at at KGB Bar in NYC.

Articles

• Matt Staggs on But I thought it’d be like in the movies!
• Sterling Editing on So many kinds of edits!
• Wendy Lee on “Kitchen Chinese”: The Editor-Book Love Story.
• Claire Light on Why Aren’t Women and POC Submitting Their Work?
• Nick Mamatas on O RLY?
• Joshua Bilmes on Viewer Mail.
• Mitch Wagner on Our Avatars, Ourselves.
• Connie Willis on Blackout (Part 4).
• Daryl Gregory on preparing for a reading.
• Kassia Krozser on My Sense of Entitlement.
• Doret Canton on Books Being Television Shows.
• Randa Abdel Fattah on Writing & Identity.
• Rachelle Gardner on Saying No After I’ve Requested Your Manuscript and A Day in the Life.
• S.C. Butler on One Writer’s Take on Amazonfail.
• Marie Brennan on Emasculation not required.
• Juliette Wade on Country Identity.
• Janice Hardy on Query Me This and Did I Just Say That?
• Grasping for the Wind on 5 General Tips for New Book Bloggers.
• Fantasy Authors HandBook lists Ten Favorite Science Fiction Novels.
• Joe Sherry’s 19 Books of the Past Decade.
• Anton Strout asks: Does reading science fiction and fantasy make you a “reluctant adult”?
• SciFi Now offers A Brief Cyberpunk Primer.
• The Millions on Confessions of a Book Pirate. [via LookAtThis]

Fun Stuff

• Marooned has created a Flickr gallery of C.L. Moore’s Northwest Smith English language

  covers.

• Pyr Books shares the Full Cover Spread for Dragonfly Falling.
• Alastair Reynolds has posted chapter one of Terminal World.