SF Tidbits for 6/24/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Innsmouth

  Free Press interviews Ari Marmell.

• The

  Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Laird

  Barron.

• The Agony Column interviews Carlos

  Ruiz Zafón (podcast).

• Jeff VanderMeer interviews Dexter

  Palmer.

• Frederik Pohl on Frank

  Herbert (Part 2).

News

• Ditmar nominations

  are now open.

• The

  Sarah Jane Adventures: Series Four Titles Confirmed. [via Eoghann

  Irving]

Articles

• Jim C. Hines

  on Ethics of

  Review Copies.

• Victoria Strauss on Are Agents

  Underpaid?

• Larry Doyle on Century

  of No Progress.

• Jeremy L.C. Jones on Notice

  Anything Funny About That? Morning Grammar Lessons with My Dad.

• Juliette

  Wade on Second

  person – that means *you*!

• Janice Hardy on Re-Write

  Wednesday: Telling Yourself to Show.

• John Scalzi on Hey,

  Who Put the Environment in My Science Fiction Flick?

• Pimp

  My Novel on More

  Notes on Rejection.

• Suvudu on 25

  Years of Spectra: The Red Wyvern (1997) by The Website at the

  End of the Universe on Sci-fi authors finding new

  ways to get funded.

• Jeff VanderMeer on Anthologies:

  A Reader’s Point of View

• Katherine Kerr
• David Barnett on Gaiman’s

  choice: shouldn’t good writing tell a story too?

• Nancy Kress on Michael

  Bishop Experiments.

• Michael A. Burstein on Mike

  Resnick and Africa

• Bookgasm lists lists 7

  Current Zombie Books with Brains.

More Fun Stuff

• 100+

  extremely confusing vintage horror comic covers.

• Travel poster for an

  intergalactic cruise line by Andy Helms. [via Super

  Punch]