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Richard K. Morgan at Omnivoracious

Forget snakes, forget planes: it’s all about “Whales On Stilts.”

Atheist and ordained minister brother wrote a horror novel titled “Orgy of Souls.”

Ebook reader for iPhone, e-i-e-i-oh I think I’ll just hang on to my paperback for a little bit longer

Jeff VanderMeer on transparency, accuracy and community on the net

Cat Staggs’ (no relation, I think?) sketchbook cover parodies Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover with Dr. Girlfriend from Venture Bros. (very, very mildly NSFW)

Sci Fi terrorism comes to comics

Review of Daniel Abraham’s “An Autumn War”

TONS MORE AFTER THE JUMP

Interview with Paul McGillion

Free tickets for Bradbury-inspired play

Interview with Scott Dalyrymple

Review: “Down to a Sunless Sea” by Matthias Freese

Win Heinlein’s “Project Moonbase” and others

Read excerpts from Jeffrey Thomas’ “Thirteen Specimens” collection!

Review: “Secret Lives” by Jeff VanderMeer

Review: “Psychological Methods to Sell Should be Destroyed” by Robert Freeman Wexler

Interview with Jack Dann

Review: “A Darkness Forged in Fire” by Chris Evans

Weird machinima book trailer for Marjorie Liu’s “The Iron Hunt”

Google Book Search targeting more books for public domain?

What you – yes, you – need to know about Amazon’s sales rank

Review of that other book from Stephenie Myers – the one without vampires.

“Haunted Legends” call for submission

Nancy Kress at Odyssey: Day One (beer!)

Review: “The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula” by Mark Dawidziak (I love Dracula – really want a copy of this)

Help Michael Jasper choose his author photo

Interview with author Wena Poon

McSweeney’s: “If the Head Counselor at My Old Summer Camp Wrote a Household Q&A Column.”

Mike Resnick’s “Seven View of Olduvai Gorge” to be serialized in Subterranean

Making Cross-Promotion Fun (useful advice)

SFRevu Interview with Paolo Bacigalupi

Subterranean Press offering free ARCS to (some) good homes

Review: “Victory of Eagles” by Naomi Novik

How can I strengthen my narrative arc?

Review: “Fossil Hunter” by John B. Olson (Creationist fiction? My head hurts.)

Kevin J. Anderson on “The Ashes of Worlds”

Nick Mamatas on “Do I have the potential to be a great writer?”

Sad news from the Cleveland Plain Dealer

It’s time for Seward City News’ Weird Book of the Week: “Maximized Manhood”

Guess the Plot with the Evil Editor: “The Legends of Sauria”

Happy Birthday, Robert Heinlein

Horror roundtable with Ellen Datlow, Mort Castle, Nick Mamatas

Putting a fan-boy case for pure pleasure

Stephanie Kuehnert’s “I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone” a punk rock cross-over novel

Ever read this interview with Jeffrey Ford?

Website creator’s site lists books for gender equality

Find out more about Batman than you should ever know

Dana Spiotta interview

“Thinking about speculative fiction and women”

Weird Tales’ Blasphemous Horrors 41

Captivated: JM Barrie, the Du Mauriers and the Dark Side of Neverland by Piers Dudgeon

Whatcha reading, Cat?

Written by Matt Staggs

July 7, 2008 at 6:56 pm

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