SF Tidbits for 7/5/11

Interviews and Profiles

• Angry Robot Podcast interviews Kaaron Warren.
• Erin Underwood interviews Charles Tan.
• Fantasy Faction interviews Brandon Sanderson (video).
• Fantasy Magazine (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews J.S. Breukelaar.
• Hero Complex interviews Nicolas

  Roeg.

• Writer’s Digest interviews John Scalzi.
• SciFiNow interviews Joe

  Abercrombie.

News

• Prometheus Award Winners.
• Angry Robot ebooks on Kindle Summer Reading promo (99-cent eBooks).
• Angry Robot

  introduces 12-Month eBook Subscription. [via The

  Bookseller]

• Norman

  Spinrad’s eBok Experiment: Osama the Gun. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Amazon

  to buy U.K. online book retailer The Book Depository International. [via

  Lawrence Person]

• Season 1 of

  Shadow Unit is now available in e-book format.

Articles

• World SF News Blog (Joyce Chng) On the Russ Pledge.
• Stroppy Author on How to speak publisher – C is for Copy editor. 
• Clarion Blog (Brian Rathbone) on Editing with TTS.
• Cheryl Morgan on Revisiting Jeffrey Catherine Jones.
• Tobias Buckell on What’s a Barbados Sci Fi Con like? AnimeKon Expo snapshots.
• Cory Doctorow on With

  A Little Help: Heuristics [via Paul

  Di Filippo] and Little

  Brother stage adaptation in San Francisco.

• Keith Brooke on Writing

  strategies in difficult times. [via Paul Di Filippo]

• Mythic Scribes on Writing

  Character-Driven Fantasy.

• Genevieve Valentine on Intertitles:

  In Praise of the Glorious Mess.

• Aidan Moher on Halp! I’m a Science Fiction neophyte.
• Adam Roberts Surface

  Detail by Iain M. Banks.

• Richard Larson reviews Eclipse

  Four edited by Jonathan Strahan.

• The Night Bazaar on Time is

  the Fire in Which We Burn.

• Black Gate on The

  Centenary of Mervyn Peake.