December 18, 2012 Writing, Publishing, and Speculative Fiction Links and Plugs

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Interviews and Profiles

• The Coode St. Podcast with Maureen McHugh.
• My Bookish Ways interviews Mandy Hager.
• Erin Underwood interviews Ellen Datlow & Chizine Publications.
• The Qwillery interviews Trey Garrison.
• SFFWorld.com interviews R.T. Kaelin.
• Lawrence M. Schoen interviews Lavie Tidhar.
• SFX (Dave Bradley) interviews Gareth L. Powell.
• BBC The World interviews Ursula K. Le Guin and China Mieville (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Tobias Buckell on How I used Kickstarter to reboot a book series, and my career (and maybe my life?).
• Omnivoracious (Susan J. Morris) on Turning Passive Plots into Active Plots.
• Juliette Wade on Designing character interviews that really matter (including genre-inspired questions).
• Sarah McCarry on C'est Nous: A Conversation In Solidarity with the Girl.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Sarah Tolmie) on 2012 In Review.
• Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Jeffrey Ford) on Reading and Viewing in 2012.
• Avery Book Nook (Adrienne Kress) on Comedy.
• Book Life Now (Troy D. Smith) on Collaborative Novels: Like Herding Cats?
• Tor Books Blog (Paul Cornell) on Writing Across the Mediums.
• William King (Howard Andrew Jones) on Sword And Sorcery.
• Ian Sales on Best of the year 2012.
• Smart Pop Books (Thomas Flamson) on Free Will in a Deterministic Whedonverse.
• Jamie Todd Rubin on Why I Don’t Self-Publish My Stories.
• Kindertrauma (Kevin M.) on Superfriends: The Lord of Middle Earth.
• Melville House (Claire Kelley) on Books for the end of the world.
• Tor.com (Bridget McGovern) on 11 Odd, Campy, Surreal Holiday Specials That Should Be Classics.

Reviews

• SciFiNow (Joe Dussander) on Top 5 best sci-fi, fantasy and horror films of 2012.
• Functional Nereds (Paul Weimer) reviews Walk the Fire.
• Locus (Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person) review The Hobbit.
• Barnes and Noble Review (Paul Di Filippo) on Almost Invisible Worlds.

Art

• Requiem Angel by Eric Deschamps.

News

• Wheel of Time Book Trailer Played Before Hobbit Screenings.
• More numbers: Ebook sales projection for 2012.
• Stoker Awards Nomination Period Now Open.
• Nebula Awards Nomination Period Now Open.
• World Fantasy Awards Nomination Period Now Open.
• The Dragon Lords, world's first 'cloud-sourced' novel, prepares to land.