SF Tidbits for 2/14/11

Interviews/Profiles

• The Outer Alliance interviews Mark Allan Gunnells.
• Little Miss Zombie interviews Gemma Files.
• Jessica Strider interviews Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Ferrett Steinmetz (podcast).
• Helen Lowe interviews Mary

  Victoria.

• Los Angeles Times interviews Jonathan

  Lethem.

• Innsmouth Free Press interviews Alyx Shaw.
• Adam Christopher interviews Mur Lafferty.
• Sci-Fi Talk interviews Jo

  Walton (podcast).

News

• Atlanta

  Nights, a novel written as part of a sting operation by members of SFWA

  against the publisher PublishAmerica by “Travis Tea”, has been optioned for

  film.

Events

• Laird Barron and Nicholas Kaufmann read at KGB February 16th.

Articles

• Christie Yant on Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You.
• Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 6.
• Marissa Day on The Sex Pt. 3 — Why?
• Dale Spindel on Ten misperceptions about public libraries.
• Juliette Wade on Story Arcs Again: Repetition and Development.
• Janice Hardy on If You Build it, They Will Read: Plotting With Layers.
• Jason Sanford on Why Doesn’t Locus Review Daily Science Fiction?
• Mark Charan Newton on The Definitive New Weird Definition.
• Kameron Hurley on “Fearing the Woman in the Dark Alley”.
• Mark Chadbourn on Finding Fantasy in The Past – The People.
• Locus Roundtable: Writing

  Within and Without Genre.

• Lawrence Person on Retro TV

  Memories: The Fantastic Journey.

• S. F. Murphy on Starting

  with an established world: The Without Warning Trilogy of John

  Birmingham.

• Jo Walton on Hugo Nominees:

  1970.

• Pornokitsch on The

  Literature of Ideas; or, please stop laughing at me . [via Derek Johnson]

Art

• @CoolVibe: “The Descent”

  by Ven Locklear.

• @CoolVibe: Sci-fi art by

  Silver Saaremäel.

• @CoolVibe: “Dock35” by Stefan

  Morrell.

• Mondo

  Movie Posters.