Matt’s Bookosphere 8/4/08

Fiction: Christie Skipper Richotte’s “Penguin and Wren” (Thanks, Cat!)

Top 100 Fantasy and Sci Fi books: Fight!

Top 10 mistakes in science fiction manuscripts

85 Weirdest: Hunter S. Thompson

Del Rey announces “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard” (Thanks, Rick!) I am praying at the altar of the god of Arcs right now…

MORE AFTER THE JUMP

Review: “Seeds”

Ekaterina Sedia begins guest blogging stint at Ecstatic Days

Lots of cool stuff reviewed at Publishers Weekly (phallic plants, time-traveling hobnobbing ghosts and boy genuises)

WorldCon or bust!!!

Review: “Wolf Time” by Lars Walker

This dog loves literature

Looking for an MFA in creative writing?

Doctor Who writer and more at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Feature piece on David Weber

Guidelines for new John Joseph Adams edited antho, “Federations”

Five big and five little things Sci Fi can do to improve its image

Review of “The Alchemy of Stone” by Ekaterina Sedia

Interview with Ekaterina Sedia

Review: “Paper Cities”

Review: “The Baum Plan for Financial Independence” by John Kessel

Interview with Gregory Frost

Review: “Can you forgive me? Memoirs of a literary forger” by Lee Israel

In praise of pithy: books for short attention spans

Interview with Chris Adrian

Occult publishers New Falcon reborn

Interview with John Scalzi

Review: “Implied Spaces” by Walter Jon Williams

One: Get a bag. Two: put your library in the bag.

John Farris first guest announced for Stoker Weekend