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Jeff VanderMeer’s cool old Indian comics

Cat Rambo interview at The Fix

Edward Champion: “Why I’ll never read litblogs again”

Charles Tan: Abandoning Books

Praise for Alastair Reynolds’ “House of Suns”

Cat Rambo offers Ten Tips for New Writers

(LOTS MORE AFTER THE JUMP)

Neil Gaiman interview Terry Pratchett

LIterary agent sues internet: Says Pinky, “I know nothing about Ms. Bauer’s skills as a literary agent. But as a person existing in today’s multimedia world, I’d say she’s clearly a fucktard.”

“But what I want to leave you with is not a tale about how librarians are beleaguered, or have reinvented themselves for the digital age, or now sport tattoos and pink hair, but rather to muse on three short stories about librarians that I read recently.”

Mark Chadbourn signs six-book US deal

Fiction: “The Memory of Water” by David Moles

Review: “Empress” by Karen Miller

Review: “The Gone-Away World” by Nick Harkaway

PW gives starred review to Ekaterina Sedia’s “The Alchemy of Stone”

Special offer: “Dragons of Manhattan”

Elizabeth Bear announces secret project

More on Secret Project from John Scalzi

University of Liverpool honors Brian Aldiss

Sarah Beth Durst on her new book

“To consider what it means for us to live on — to survive, and to reproduce our social existence — as parasites on the monstrous body of Capital, we must turn from Lovecraft to Paul Di Filippo.”

The latest issue of Helix is live

Interview with Barth Anderson, author of “The Patron Saint of Plagues”

Free Walter Jon Williams’ ebook: The Green Leopard Plague”

“When I grow up, I want to be a bard”

Betraying the novel (very interesting post, actually.)

New photos from “Choke” movie

Review: “Day by Day Armageddon”

Nancy Kress talks “Dogs” on John Scalzi’s The Big Idea

The Life and Works of Hunter S. Thompson

Super-Folks deconstructs and reconstructs the superhero genre for adult readers.

“Martin Millar, where have you been all of my life?”

“I was fine with it. Weird Tales was, in its previous incarnation, Tried-And-Truing its way (back) to the grave, and I’m happy to see the new, paradigm-shifted version of WT going great guns.”

Yet another view on the future of publishing

Update on Canadian book challenge

A.R. Yngve’s free fiction

Origins Awards!

Discussion: Obscure feminist writers

Spotlight: Books of July, 2008

“Shameless Plug for a Great Guy: Paul Jessup”

Interview of Jay Lake by Alethea Kontis

Interview with Tim Etchells

SF writers who also write mystery/crime

Goodkind conjures a change of publisher and and genre

Things to think about in the struggle of art vs. commerce

Review: “The Fade” by Chris Wooding

Farrago’s Wainscot #7 now online

Liking “Mothers and Other Monsters”

McSweeney’s: “Interviews with people who have interesting or unusual jobs”

Con report: Hypericon 2008

Interesting peek behind the scenes with novelist Diana Pharoah Francis

Steven Greenhouse on Bat Segundo

Clockwork Phoenix is out

Paranoia is totally hot

Why puppets, Rachel Swirsky?

Spam Lit: the silver lining of junk mail?

I love Flannery O’ Connor and even I didn’t know “Good Country People” had been adapted for film

Outsourcing book trailer production to your fans

Review: “Devil May Care”

What happens when you get a literary agent

Hello, Caleb!

Written by Matt Staggs

July 1, 2008 at 11:27 pm

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