Enter the Octopus

Matt Bookosphere 7/20/08

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Scott Edelman on ReaderCon

Tor.com goes live

Booklert lets you keep track of your book’s rank at Amazon…or anyone else’s

Greg Van Eekhout love his Moleskine

Austin Camacho’s agent says editors are looking for more urban fantasy

“Here’s a question– can a book be great, even if a writer is not what you would class as “Great”? Can a writer be great if they turn out a lifetime career of solid, but not spectacular books?”

“Likewise, the ‘mundane’ sf comment bespeaks such a deep negativity that it makes me wonder why its proponents don’t simply take the next logical step by declaring fiction to be a dead end. Nothing new under the sun, nowhere else to go but an ever-diminishing pedestrian experience as the human race winds itself down towards extinction. So why bother at all?”

Review: “Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn”  by Michael Moorcock

Rick Klaw on David Itzkoff on Elric of Melnibone

Nice roundup of writerly advice

Interview with Cory Doctorow

Jay Lake, not a bad photographer!

J. M. McDermott: “Why the Christian Section of your store is the work of the devil.”

OFblog with further commentary

John Klima to blog for Tor.com

“The Dark Knight,” Barbarism and Civilization

Like that bedspread, Master Devin!

A new way of organizing your library, Garanimal Style

In His House at R’lyeh Dead Elvis Lies Sleeping

Magic and science in fiction

Screw you guys, we’ll just make our own library

Review: “Sly Mongoose” by Tobias Buckell

Even more about the future of SF

Graphic novels based on real life

Dead in Desemboque at Omnivoracious

Cover art for Tobias Buckell’s HALO novel

The 10 Mental Illnesses Batman Indisputably Has

Ray Bradbury speaks at Writer’s Symposium

Free ebook from tor: “Darkness of the Light” by Peter David

Why is it that so few adults enjoy fantasy and science fiction literature?

Light and the Writer

Promoting the world of Christian fantasy writing

Martin Millar, what did pears ever do to you?

Apex Digest issue 1 now online

Review: “Secret Hours” by Michael Cisco

Fiction: “Scary Monsters” by Jonathan Wood

Los Angeles English teacher likens security cameras in classroom to Doctorow’s “Little Brother”

“The Trouble with Elric”

Paul Jessup says that e-books aren’t going to cut down on prices of regular books

Elric in NY TIMES

Five Free Favorites from SFF Audio!

New Edition of Powers’ “The Stress of her Regard”

Written by Matt Staggs

July 20, 2008 at 10:07 pm

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  1. Hey, now I know I’m SOMEBODY!! I’m mentioned on the Bookosphere! I hope you’ll all follow what I’m doing with werewolves and zombies in the future with my writing partner, horror chick Meloney Crawford Chadwick (look her up)- past editor of Vampirella and writer of the Inkworks collector cards of Buffy, Supernatural and others.

    Austin S. Camacho

    July 21, 2008 at 7:04 am

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