SF Tidbits for 3/9/11

Interviews/Profiles

• Lisa Paitz Spindler interviews Cindy Spencer Pape.
• Graeme’s Fantasy Book Review interviews Conrad Williams.
• Preternatural interviews Lydia Dare.
• If You’re Just Joining Us interviews James Knapp (podcast).
• The Zombie Feed interviews Paul Jessup.
• Angela Slatter interviews Stephen Jones.
• Jeremy L.C. Jones interviews James Reasoner.
• The Functional Nerds interviews Jason Sanford (podcast).
• Jason Denzel interviews David Gaider and Mike Laidlaw.
• Matt Staggs interviews Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert.
• Chris Moriarty interviews Walter

  Jon Williams.

• Erin Stocks interviews Stephen

  Baxter.

• StarShipSofa interviews Genevieve

  Valentine, John Joseph Adams, and Harry Turtledove (podcast).

News

• Apex Needs A Vitamin Shot in the Arm for an Alien.
• Book View Café Features Story Collections.
• All Romance™ eBooks Opens the ARe Café™ to the Public: eBook Lovers Finally Have Their Own Network.
• 2011 Philip K. Dick Award Judges.
• Orbit

  eBook Deal: Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler, for $2.99.

Events

• Forbidden Planet hosts a

  signing by Eric Brown for The Kings of Enternity at the

  Forbidden Planet Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, WC2H 8JR, on

  Thursday 31st March 6 – 7pm.

Articles

• Madeleine E. Robins on Critique Groups: Etiquette.
• Rachelle Gardner on Hoping For a Movie Deal, Part One.
• Alan Rinzler on The writer’s toolkit: Breaking the rules of the narrative arc.
• Cory Doctorow on Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug.
• Cat Valente on At What Price Community?
• Mary Anne Mohanraj on Letter to a Someone Considering an MFA — and also to Someone Else Who Flagrantly Dismissed Such Programs.
• Mary Anne Mohanraj and Jed Hartman’s Critiquing Guidelines.
• Tiffany Trent on Keep Your Hands to Yourself.
• Jay Lake on Reopening the topic of Consumers and Producers.
• David Erik Nelson on How to Make a Sock Squid (and Enhancements).
• Ryan Harvey on “;”.
• Jana DeLeon on The Perils of Pacing.
• Stacia Kane on The Last One.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on News About

  Diving Stories.

• Philip Athans on Heard

  Youy Missed me, comic books. I’m back..

• Ted Balcom on The

  Importance of Reading and Book Groups.

• Lincoln Crisler on The

  Weird West Subgenre.

• Ken MacLeod on An

  Appreciation of Old Man’s War.

• Simon Mordern on I heart the

  apocalypse.

• Chicago News on Library

  of the future: Wi-Fi, flat screens, automated book sorting. [via Paul Di

  Filippo]

• The Comics Journal on The

  Frazetta family strife. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Ethan Gilsdorf on How

  “Dungeons & Dragons” changed my life. [via Paul Di Filippo]

Art

• Concept

  spaceship art by Eric Spray.

More Fun Stuff

• J.R.R.

  Tolkien reading excerpts from his mythical saga The Lord of the

  Rings. [via Andrew Liptak]

• 20

  Outstanding Examples of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Origami. [via Monster

  Scifi Show Blog]

• If Plastic Man

  Starred in 127 Hours.

• This Is

  What Pi Sounds Like [VIDEO].

• Jeff

  VanderMeer Does the Leviathan 5 Donations Dance

  (Literally).

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