SF Tidbits for 6/30/11
Interviews and Profiles
- Peace, Love & Reviews interviews Gail Carriger.
- Angela Slatter interviews Favel Parrett.
- Flickering Myth profiles George Lucas (part four).
- Orbit Podcast interviews Mira Grant.
- Tor.com (Myke Cole) interviews Greg Van Eekhout and Carrie Vaughn.
- Locus interviews Rachel Swirsky.
- Innsmouth Free Press interviews artist Steven Gilberts.
- SciFiNow interviews Sarah Pinborough.
News
- ChiZine now available on Nook!
- Lavie Tidhar’s “The School”.
- Shared World teaser.
- Cover Artists Announced for A Game of Thrones Comic Book Series.
- The summer issue of Four Star Stories features short stories by Lou Antonelli, Selina Rosen, Rick Copple and David Gray, as well as Guest Art by Brad Foster.
- Enter for a chance to Win The Spiral Path from Audible.com.
- EMP’s Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival Now Accepting Entries
Articles
- Juliette Wade on Successful Technologies Endure: Deepening your world.
- Andrew Wheeler on Surveying eBooks.
- Chuck Wendig on Strangling Mermaids: More Writing Myths That Need To Die.
- The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin on Flirting and Writing Good Dialogue.
- Confessions of a Technophobe (Ian Whates) on Putting the Gender in Genre.
- Rachelle Gardner on Advances: How Can I Find Who Got What?
- Jeff VanderMeer on Writer, Confess Thy Eccentricities!
- Jim C. Hines on Judging Other Writers.
- Locus Roundtable: N.K. Jemisin.
- Ursula K. Le Guin on It Doesn’t Have To Be the Way It Is.
- Shimmer (Daryl Gregory) on Writing at Gunpoint.
- Nanacy Kress on Clarion.
- A. Lee Martinez on Weird Tales.
- Black Gate on Dark Places.
- Jonathan Maberry on So You Want to be a Writer?
- Kevin Maher on the movie that will forever change the way you look at pizza cutters.
- Jamie Todd Rubin on Where does a fan’s responsibility lie? Amazon’s screw-up with A Dance with Dragons.
- Paul Weimer reviews The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder.
- Shaun Duke on Our Inner Children and Childhood Suppression: Let Kids Be Kids.
- SciFi Readers lists The Top 5 Spaceships.
- Tv.com lists Game of Thrones: The 10 Most Memorable Moments of Season 1.
Art
- @ItsArtMag: “Mars conflict” by ortheza.
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