October 2, 2012 Links and Plugs

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Interviews and Profiles

• Lovecraft eZine interviews Ellen Datlow (video). 
• Writing Excuses with Maurice Broaddus (podcast).
• The Oeditrix interviews Libba Bray.
• Cynsations (Cynthia Leitich Smith) interviews Gwenda Bond.
• Geek Chocolate (Michael Flett) interviews China Mieville.
• Nerds of a Feather interviews Paul Kindcaid.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) profiles Jehanne Jean-Charles.
• Clarkesworld (Jeremy L.C. Jones) interviews John Varley.

Advice/Articles

• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Sentence Length Matters: The Anatomy of a Perfect Paragraph.
• Book View Cafe (Sue Lange) on To Ban or Not to Ban.
• SF Novelists (Mindy Klasky) on The Category Game.
• Juliette Wade on Why you shouldn't rush your writing.
• Clarion Blog (Rayne Hall) on Three Ways to End a Horror Story.
• Muddy Colors (Paolo Rivera) on Painting the Fantastic Four.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Gregory Benford and Larry Niven) on Big Smart Objects.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Cory Doctorow) on The Secret World of Hardware Revocation.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Tina Connolly) on The Books in the Book.
• Tor/Forge Blog (Christopher L. Bennett) on The Ingredients of a Hero (Not the Sandwich).
• Tor/Forge Blog (Max Gladstone) on Law School, Magic School.
• My Bookish Ways (Lisa Kessler) on Night Thief.
• SF Site (Derek Johnson) on Drinking Deeply from the Datastream.
• Black Gate (Scott Taylor) on Art of the Genre: Top 10 ‘Hawt’ Fantasy Artists.
• Bar Bones e-Zine (Peter Enfantino & Jack Seabrook) on Batman in the 1970s Part 38: October and November 1975.
• Smart Pop Books (Gregory Stevenson) on Horror, Humanity, and the Demon in the Mirror.
• Paul Gravett on Seal Of Approval: The History Of The Comics Code. [via Paul Di Filippo]
• Live Science (Clara Moskowitz) on Packing for an Interstellar Space Voyage: What to Bring?
• Grasping for the Wind (Bryan Thomas Schmidt) on How I Edit An Anthology.
• Jeremiah Tolbert on Author Website Survey.
• Topless Robot (Shaun Clayton) on 8 Things That Ruin D&D Games.
• L.B. Gale on 7 Books with Unconventional Chapter Structures.

Reviews

• The Functional Nerds (Paul Weimer) reviews Seven Wonders.

Art

• Conceptual Art by David Rapoza.
• Conceptual Art by Ian McQue.
• Robotwar2 by David S. Hong.

News

• The 2012 Strange Horizons Fund Drive.
• Sir Terry Pratchett Launches His Own Production Company.
• Steampunk Week 2012 on Tor.com.
• Introducing AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers anthology.
• Díaz Wins Genius Grant.
• Allende Wins Andersen Award.
• Bad Seeds anthology looking for recommendations.

Events

• Come to Foyles on Charing Cross Road in London this Thursday, as we launch the paperback of Lavie Tidhar's stunning 'Osama'.
• “Out of Excuses” The Writing Excuses Workshop and RetreatJune 10 – 16, 2013.

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