SF Tidbits for 3/28/12

Interviews and Profiles

• The Strand interviews Karen Lord (podcast).
• Lightspeed (John Nakamura Remy) interviews Karen Joy Fowler.
• FearNet interviews Joe Hill (video).
• ThinkHero interviews Joe Hill (video).
• 40kbooks interviews Jamie Todd Rubin.
• John Scalzi’s The Big Idea: Anne Lyle.
• Suvudu (Shawn Speakman) interviews David Anthony Durham.
• Suvudu Take Five with Erik Craddock.
• The Guardian interviews Kevin Barry.
• Fantasy Book Review interviews Adam Christopher.
• CGSociety (Trevor Hogg) interviews Sharon Calahan.
• Functional Nerds (Patrick Hester and John Anealio) interviews Len Peralta (podcast).
• The Big Click (Tom Piccirilli) interviews Joe Lansdale.

News

• 2012 Service to SFWA Award goes to Clarence Howard ‘Bud’ Webster.
• Harry Potter’s New Adventure: Going Digital in E-Books.
• Million Writers Award anthologies to be published June 14.
• Singularity & Co. – Save the SciFi! Kickstarter.
• Netflix Rescue Bid For Terra Nova Fails.
• Chicon 7 Hugo Finalists (from a record number of nomination ballots) to be Announced on Saturday, April 7…simultaneously at five conventions in the U.S. and Europe.

Events

• Rachel Caine signing Black Dawn at Forbidden Planet.
• Announcing Gail Carriger’s Grand UK Tour (…and a terribly delightful competition).

Articles

• Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on The Importance Of Keeping An Open Mind To The Fiction Of Ideas.
• Justine Larbalestier on I’ll Know I’ve Made it as a Writer When…
• Rachelle Gardner on How to Make a Living as a Writer, Part Two: Variety.
• Chuck Wendig on 25 Lies Writers Tell (And Start To Believe).
• Holly Black on How I Wrote Doll Bones.
• Storytellers Unplugged (Richard Dansky) on Eight Reasons Your Story Might Not Be Selling That Have Little To Nothing To Do With Whether The Story Is Any Damn Good.
• Inkpunks (Adam Israel) on Rules of writing: the auto-tune of literature.
• Nancy Kress on Three Books Altering Humanity.
• Deborah J. Ross (Phyllis Irene Radford) on Heroes, King Arthur, and Creating the Merlin’s Descendents series.
• A.M. Dellamonica on Sekrit Project Unveiled!
• The Night Bazaar (John Love) on “A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.”.
• Orbit Books (V.M. Zito) on The Origin Of (undead) Species.
• GalleyCat on The Lost History of Fifty Shades of Grey. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• The Minimalists on How I Got Rid of 2,000 Books and Started Reading More.
• Boing Boing (Cory Doctorow) on >Liminal States.
• Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Article 5 by Kristen Simmons.
• WhatCulture on 10 Great Films Kids Should Watch, But Probably Won’t.
• SFX lists Top 200 Sexiest Characters In Sci-Fi.

Art

• The Best of Digital Art Scenes.
• AT-AT oil painting. [via BoingBoing via Wil Wheaton]
• @CoolVibe: “Beauty meets the Unicorn” by Ken Barthelmey.
• @CoolVibe: “Colosus” by Piotr Foksowicz.
• @Daily Design Inspiration: “Emperor Hulk“.
• @deviantART: “Orbital Fight” by Taenaron.
• @deviantART: “Praedestinatio” by Taenaron.
• @deviantART: “Steam Daddy” by ~arsenixc.
• @Minimal Movie Posters: “Another Earth” by Keano Ross.
• @Mondolithic Studios: “The 4th Reich“.

More Fun Stuff

• Read a Free Excerpt from Elspeth Cooper’s Songs of the Earth– Chapter Two: Shadowkin.
• Read a Free Excerpt from John Scalzi’s Redshirts.
• Read a Free Excerpt from V.M. Zito’s The Return Man.
• Cthulhu sculpture as drawn by H.P. Lovecraft.
• Back to the Future Timelines.
• Sonic Screwdriver Chart.
• Star Wars Episode III Opening Crawl, Horribly Translated.