SF Tidbits for 1/24/12
Interviews and Profiles
- Gollancz interviews Rae Carson.
- The Spark interviews Cory Doctorow (podcast).
- Weird Fiction Review (John Curran) interviews Bruno Schulz.
- Tor.com (Theresa Delucci) interviews Steven S. DeKnight.
- Lightspeed (Jennifer Konieczny) interviews Marissa Lingen.
- SciFi Diner Podcast interviews Christopher Judge.
News
- 2012 Rainbow List Announced.
- Stonewall Book Awards.
- American Library Association 2012 Youth Media Award Winners.
- Diane Kruger set to star in Stephenie Meyer’s The Host.
- Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards Fund Raiser.
- J.R.R. Tolkien & George Orwell Removed From Public Domain.
- HWA 2011 Specialty Press Award Goes to Bad Moon Books and Hippocampus Press.
- Nano-scale terahertz antenna created, hand-held tricorders incoming. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus. [via Paul Di Filippo]
Articles
- Cheryl Morgan on In Search of Editors.
- Juliette Wade on When do we need to know what a character looks like?
- Janice Hardy on What’s Their Story? Discovering the Front Story of Your Non-Point of View Characters.
- Nicola Morgan on Crabbit’s Tips for Writers – 5: Ingredients of Poor Writing.
- Theodora Goss on Publicity and the Introvert.
- N.K. Jemisin on The Price of Time.
- Night Bazaar (Mazarkis Williams) on Delicious Books and Why I Read Them.
- SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Writing Descriptive Passages.
- Bryan Thomas Schmidt on Write Tips: 9 Free Ways To Market Your Book.
- World SF Blog (Judit Lőrinczy) on A personal account of the XXXI. Hungarian National Science Fiction Convention.
- Lisa L. Hannett (Deborah Kalin) on Whatever Works.
- Inkpunks (Adam Israel) on The Clarion Writers’ Workshop.
- Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Give Your Characters a Voice: Writing Strong Dialogue.
- Guardian (William Skidelsky) on The true price of publishing.
- Strange Horizons (Mark Plummer) on Paraphernalia: FIADSBLTPPUTPWYP
- Apex Book Company (Lynne M. Thomas) on Blood on Vellum: Notes from the Apex Editor.
- Charles Stross on World building 404: The unknown unknowns.
- The Barnes & Noble Review (Jeff VanderMeer) reviews The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus.
- Salon.com (Bob Calhoun) on The tragedy of Kevin Sorbo. [via Paul Di Filippo]
- SFX Magazine on Top 50 Vampires 2012. [via Whedonesque]
- Philip Threadneedle lists Space flights of fancy: children’s books set in outer space.
Art
- The 30 Coolest Pieces From The “These Are The Droids You’re Looking For” Star Wars Art Show.
- Adventures in Science Fiction Art: Doomed Cities Part II (migrating icebergs, firestorms, the horsemen of the apocalypse).
- Science Fiction cover art.
- Classic Film Car Posters.
- Yesterday’s Hero cover art reveal.
- @ItsArtMag:”Goblin” by Firstear.
More Fun Stuff
There is some great advice in that Bryan Thomas Schmidt post–I had no idea you could upload press releases directly to some local newspapers. That’s nutty. I will now investigate my local options, because why not…?