November 6, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

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Interviews and Profiles

• Sense of Wonder interviews Karin Tidbeck.
• Bookworm Blues interviews Sam Sykes.
• Locus interviews Gregory Benford.
• GeekChocolate interviews Joe Abercrombie.
• PJ Media (Patrick Richardson) interviews Tom Kratman, Sarah A. Hoyt, Larry Correia and Kate Paulk.
• Inside TV (Dalton Ross) interviews Sarah Wayne Callies.
• Writing Excuses Episode 7.45 (podcast).
• Scott Edelman's recording of 2012 World Fantasy Awards Ceremony (video).

Advice/Articles

• Theodora Goss on Talent and Discipline.
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Help, My Writing Is Broken! (Or, How to Deal with Writer’s Block).
• Clarion (Michelle Murrain) on Is pirating books bad for writers?
• Chuck Wendig on Battle Song Of The Storyteller.
• Weird Fiction Review (Edward Gauvin) on Feeling Very Lonely in Beyond, Part II of II.
• Weird Fiction Review (John Clute) on The Darkening Garden: Serpent’s Egg.
• Discover Magazine (Phil Plait) on DC comics pins Krypton to the star map. 
• Book View Cafe (Steven Harper Piziks) on Release That Punk! 
• Ian Sales on SF Comics.
• Graeme's Fantasy Book Review (Jamie Gibbs) on Complementary genres – fantasy and heavy metal.
• Kindle Daily (Christopher Paolini) on Top 10 fan interactions/and or gifts I’ve received from fans on tour.
• 40kbooks (Kassia Kroszer) on The Smartest Thing in Publishing Is to Be Flexible.
• Tor.com (Jo Walton) on Something Else Like... Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkosigan Saga.

Reviews

• Neal Asher reviews Prometheus.
• My Bookish Ways reviews Sealed With a Curse.
• Staffer's Book Review on An Explosion of Young Adult Short Reviews.

Art

• Top Fantasy Illustrations by Tyler James.
• Kimmins Design – Troll Book.
• The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange – Cover Reveal!

News

• Strange Horizons Podcasts and pay rises.
• Authors Guild asks for “close scrutiny” of Penguin Random House merger.
• Redshirts Nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award.
• Announcing the Scalzi Super Bundle from Subterranean Press — This November Only.
• Fringe Will End Jan. 18.

Events

• Forthcoming Terry Brooks Video Interview.

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