SF Tidbits for 6/25/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Locus

  interviews Kit

  Reed.

• Jennifer Konieczny interviews Paul

  Berger.

• Darrell Schweitzer interviews Trent

  Zelazny.

• Elena Nola interviews Yasmine

  Galenorn.

• John Ottinger III interviews Yasmine

  Galenorn.

• Functional Nerds interviews genre book cover artist & 2010 Hugo nominee John Picacio (podcast).

News

• Gaiman

  Wins Carnegie Medal.

• Chaz

  Brenchley gets new book deal

• Sci-Fi Cameo

  King Wil Wheaton Leaps Back to Leverage.

• Congratulations to James Bloomer at Big Dumb

  Object, winner of The James White

  Award!

Articles

• N.R.

  Alexander on Dead Dog

  Blues.

• Laura Miller on When

  anyone can be a published author.

• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave

  New (Writing) World: The Right Tool for the Job.

• Phyllis

  Irene Radford on So

  You Want To Commit Novel: #4 Characters.

• Kristine Kathryn

  Rusch on Freelancer’s

  Survival Guide: Emergencies.

• Stroppy Author on Going

  digital (2) – the i-book, those crows, that bucket, and a bunch of

  differences.

• Janice Hardy on Be

  Prepared.

• Adam Christopher on The Big

  Magic Shelf.

• Mark Charan Newton on Sexual Healing.
• Nathan

  Bransford on Why

  I Write Vague Rejection Letters.

• Paula Guran says Stephenie

  Meyer Discovers Writing is (eek!) Work!

• Ian Sales asks Why

  bother writing science fiction?

• Marie Brennan on The

  Monstrous Feminine.

• Jo Walton on Connie

  Willis’ To Say Nothing of the Dog (which is also a

  Suvudu celebration book).

• Jeff VanderMeer on Aqueduct

  Press’s New Heirloom Series-Support It!

• Jay Lake on Re-reading

  Frank Herbert’s Dune.

• SciFi Blog lists Sci Fi Spoofs

  That Should Be in your DVD Collection.

• SCI FI Wire lists 17 objects

  that unintentionally resemble the Death Star.

More Fun

Stuff

• Marooned on 1960s

  Mars art by Shigeru Komatsuzaki.

• Chad Vader, the series about

  Darth Vader’s brother, hits Babelgum.

• Subterranean Press offers a

  first look at the art for their edition of Naomi Novik’s Empire of

  Ivory and for Connie

  Willis’ All Clear.

• SciFi Songster John Anealio sets the Scalzi/Wheaton “Unicorn

  Pegasus Kitten” illustration to music.