SF Tidbits for 11/9/10

Interviews/Profiles

• Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews Jesse Bullington.
• Simon Glezos interviews Brian Slattery. (via Eric Rosenfield)
• Tor.com’s Tweet-Up with Brandon Sanderson.
• The Next Chapter interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
• Gillian Polack interviews Joel Sheperd, Kay Kenyon and James Enge.
• Jonathan Clements profiles Yasutaka Tsutsui.
• Publishers Weekly profiles Tor.com.

  [via Locus Online]

• Geek Speak interviews Adam

  West.

News

• The Fantastic Fiction Raffle Is A Success.
• Realms

  of Fantasy is coming back from the brink of death. Again.

• The

  Walking Dead Renewed For 13-Episode 2nd Season.

Events

• Mike Carey Signing at Forbidden

  Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on Friday 26th

  November 5:30 – 6:30pm.

Articles

• Jim C. Hines on Reporting Sexual Harassment

  in the SF/F community.

• Largehearted Boy on Online “Best of 2010” Book Lists. (via Jeff VanderMeer)
• Genreville on The Best, and Next-Best, of 2010.
• Recoding of Paul di Filippo reading at the German Conference on the Fantastic (video). 
• Howard Andrew Jones on Writing: Mistakes Are Future Tip.
• Janice Hardy on External and internal conflict.
• Nicola Morgan on Resources: An Exhausting list.
• John Clute on Blackout

  & All Clear by Connie Willis.

• Lois Gresh on Vampires

  Around

  the

  World.

• Blake Charlton on Personally,

  I Welcome Our New Speculative Fiction Overlord.

• Jason Sanford offers a Teaser

  for his story “Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime”.

• Rich Horton on Summary:

  F&SF, 2010.

• S.M. Duke on The

  World in the Satin Bag: Science Fiction: It’s Not About the Future (Part

  One).

• Blastr lists 19

  demotivating (but funny!) sci-fi motivational posters and The 12 best

  planet killers in sci-fi..

• T.N. Tobias lists 10 Ways to

  Create a Plot Twist.

• Cinema Blend lists 5

  Things You Need To Survive The Impending Alien Invasion.

More Fun Stuff

• A 1978

  newspaper article spoils The Empire Strikes Back.

• Orbit Books shows off the new cover for Hell

  Ship by Philip Palmer.

• Cory Doctorow on A Song based on Cory

  Doctorow’s Little Brother.

• Read

  an excerpt from Felix Gilman’s The Half Made World.

• Read

  the First Seven Pages of Stephen King’s American Vampire for

  Free.

• John

  Anealio’s “NaNoWriMo”: The Song.