November 2, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

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Interviews and Profiles

• Speculate! interviews Amber Benson and Anton Strout (podcast).
• The Enchanted Inkpot (Cindy Pon) interviews Sarwat Chadda.
• Tor Books Blog interviews Jeff Noon. 
• My Bookish Ways interviews James Lovegrove.
• Macabre Republic interviews David Herter.
• David Brin on The Postman (video).

Advice/Articles

• Chuck Wendig on 25 Motivational Thoughts For Writers.
• Book Life Now (Mercedes M. Yardley) on How To Write When You Don’t Have The Time.
• Weird Fiction Review (Elwin Cotman) on WFR’s 101 Weird Writers: #15 — Elizabeth Hand.
• Weird Fiction Review (John Clute) on The Darkening Garden: Strange Stories.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: John Picacio.
• Ian Sales on The journey is the metaphor, not the spaceship.
• Kirkus Reviews (Andrew Liptak) on A Kind of Fairy Tale: George MacDonald.
• Wired (Michael V. Copeland) on Why Buzz Lightyear Is Worth Billions More Than Han Solo.
• Brian Ruckley on The Force is Strong With This Mouse.
• Tor.com (Grady Hendrix) on The Great Stephen King Reread: The Shining.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Business Rusch: No Reader Left Behind.
• Harper Voyager (Mark C) on Argh! Zombies!
• ThinkProgress (Alyssa Rosenberg) on Dear Internet, Joss Whedon Shouldn’t Run Everything, Including ‘Star Wars’.
• Black Gate (Sarha Avery) on Teaching and Fantasy Literature: Escape as Homecoming.
• Cosmos (Lucie Bradley) on Giant supernovae offer insight into young universe.
• WhatCulture! (Brendan Foley) on New Star Wars Trilogy: 3 Do’s and 4 Don’ts.
• WhatCulture! (Peter Henne) on 5 Ways Star Wars Episode 7 Could Help Us Forget The Prequels.
• WhatCulture! (David Molofsky) on Star Wars Episode 7: 5 Actors Who Should Play Jedi.
• Book Riot (Rebecca Joines) on Book Riot Readers’ Top 50 Favorite Novels.

Art

• Edison Rex.
• "Batman: Li'l Gotham" Brings Stylistic Watercolor To Batman.
• Cover Reveal: Hell to Pay by Matthew Hughes, Awesome Artwork by Tom Gauld.

News

• ’1000 genomes barrier’ broken.
• Locus 20th and 21st All-Centuries Poll Ballot.
• The Voyager Blog.
• New Imprint: Heron Books.
• George Lucas to Donate Most of his 4 Billion to Education Charity.
• Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction. [via Andrew Porter]
• Book View Cafe Donating part of book sales to Sandy relief.
• R.T. Kaelin on Anthology for Victims of Sandy.

Events

• Forbidden Planet November Events.

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