links and things
Jeff VanderMeer’s cool old Indian comics
Cat Rambo interview at The Fix
Edward Champion: “Why I’ll never read litblogs again”
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
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.)
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?”
Yet another view on the future of publishing
Update on Canadian book challenge
Discussion: Obscure feminist writers
Spotlight: Books of July, 2008
“Shameless Plug for a Great Guy: Paul Jessup”
Interview of Jay Lake by Alethea Kontis
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”
Interesting peek behind the scenes with novelist Diana Pharoah Francis
Steven Greenhouse on Bat Segundo
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