October 1, 2012 Links and Plugs

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Interviews and Profiles

• Shelf Awareness interviews Ursula K. Le Guin.[via Andrew Porter]
• Fantasy Faction interviews Joanne Anderton.
• Q&A with Carrie Cuinn.
• Sharon Roat interviews Peter Adam Salomon.
• USA Today (Carol Memmott) profiles J.K. Rowling.

Advice/Articles

• Neatorama (John Farrier) on Which Science Fiction Franchises Depict Space Warfare the Most Accurately?
• Den of Geek (Ryan Lambie) on How Philip K Dick transformed Hollywood.
• TheoFantastique on Roddenberry and Dick: Competing visions and our future.
• Book View Cafe (Chris Dolley) on The Woman Who Found Herself and other Stories.
• Muddy Colors on The Best Movie Dragon.
• Mythic Scribes (Martin White) on What Fantasy Writers Can Learn From Horror.
• The Qwillery (Lee Collins) on Weird West is Weird.
• Brain Pickings (Maria Popova) on Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing. 
• SF Novelists (James Alan Gardner) on The Skill List Project: Characterization Tools.
• Stroppy Author on Don't be a Cnut.
• The Intern on how not to be awkward at book festivals, part 2: the awkward book panel.

Reviews

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Jessica Strider) reviews American Science Fiction.
• InterGalactic Medicine Show (Jamie Todd Rubin) on The Science of Wonder.

Art

• Concept Art by Igor Kieryluk.
• Lucifer Rising.
• Spaced Out Baroque Girl by Nick Harris.

News

• Black Gate to Publish Online Fiction Starting Sunday, September 30.
• Vertigo To Increase Sci-Fi Comics For Its Twentieth Anniversary In 2013.
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac: Update and Open Reading Period.
• Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Contest.
• 2012 British Fantasy Award Winners Include Jo Walton, Lavie Tidhar, Joe Hill, and The Weird.
• Jane Frances Gunn (1925-2012).

Events

• After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse & Dystopia -launch event October 11th.
• Online & Live Class on Urban Fantasy by Pat Hauldren.

The Troika by Stepan Chapman