SF/F/H Link Post for 2013-10-23
Interviews & Profiles
- Tor.com interviews Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt.
- My Bookish Ways interviews V.E. Schwab (+ Giveaway).
- Fantasy In Motion interviews Dawn Finch.
- Functional Nerds interviews Stephen Blackmore.
- Lightspeed Magazine interviews Felicia Day.
- Christie Yant interviews Ken Liu.
- The Guardian interviews Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.
- Sword & Laser interviews Bradley P. Beaulieu.
- Josh Vogt interviews Sagan Jeffries.
- CJTR interviews Edward Willett (audio).
- Kindle Post US interviews Andy Kubert.
- Weird Fiction Review interviews Nathan Ballingrud.
- Black Static interviews Joseph D’Lacey.
- Horror Writers Association Blog interviews Jerad Walters.
- Samuel Montgomery-Blinn interviews author Nathan Kotecki about Pull Down the Night, sequel to The Suburban Strange.
- Patton Oswalt interviews Bruce Campbell.
News
- David Gemmell Awards for Fantasy to be presented at prestigious open ceremony.
- Imaginarium 2014 Open for Submissions.
- Pulp Studies – Call for Papers. [via Andrew Porter]
- BVC Announces Eastlick and Other Stories by Shannon Page.
- $75K ‘Edge Of Space’ Balloon Ride Gets FAA Approval.
- Meteorite Study Suggests Mars Atmosphere Trapped in Rocks, Not Lost in Space.
- Syfy Launches New Syfygames.Com.
Events & Event News
- Jim C. Hines – Cover Pose Calendar Auction (with Bonus Mary’s Angels Print).
- Oct 26 in New York City: Paolo Bacigalupi at Books of Wonder.
- November 5th: NYRSF Readings with Rajan Khanna, Fran Wilde and Guest Curator Amy Goldschlager.
Crowd Funding
- RARRR!!! Monster-Building, City-Stomping Card Game (Reboot!).
- SpaceOperaSociety Start-up.
- Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Fantasy by Alisa Krasnostein.
- Neverland’s Library – A Fantasy Anthology by Roger Bellini.
- War Stories: Modern Military Science Fiction by Andrew Liptak.
- The 2014 John Picacio Calendar by John Picacio.
- ASYLUM 33D by Zen Davis.
- Cthulhu Haiku II and More Mythos Madness by Lester Smith.
- Dramatic Threads Season 1.
- Dead Man’s Draw – A Card Game of Risk and Reward by Stardock.
Articles
- Kameron Hurley on Why Everyone Should Be Reading Ancillary Justice.
- Betsy Dornbusch on My Superpower.
- Deborah J. Ross on The Writing Life: Re-entry and Changing Gears.
- Sunny Moraine on Event Horizon.
- Brandon Sanderson on The Wheel of Time Retrospective: Towers Of Midnight: Writing Process.
- Michael J. Sullivan says When it comes to publishing it pays to think outside the box.
- Mark Charan Newton offers Tips for Writing Locked-Room Mysteries.
- Lavie Tidhar on Spy Novels.
- Nathan Kotecki on developing a writing process tailored to the work in the Bull Spec guest column series The Hardest Part.
- Tony Ballantyne on Why London?
- Tony Ballantyne on Story Behind Dream London.
- Slice of SciFi on Aquaman vs. Namor.
- Whatever on The Big Idea: Tim Pratt.
- Amazing Stories on On the Study of the Fantastic, Part II.
- LitStack on Rowling’s ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’ Becomes a Short Film.
- The Atlantic on Why Book Publishing’s Doomsayers Are So Wrong.
- Solaris on More monkey business: ‘HIVE MONKEY‘ is the sequel to the smash hit Ack-Ack Macaque!.
- Gollancz goes Behind the Sofa with Ben Aaronovitch.
- My Bookish Ways on The Big Reap (The Collector #3) by Chris F. Holm.
- Sci-Fi Fan Letter on Delia’s Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer.
- Bookworm Blues on The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle.
- Book Riot on 10 Pieces of Edgar Allan Poe Swag.
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