February 9, 2009 Links and Plugs

Just reminding people about the Shirley Jackson Awards Lottery.

• Victoria Blake on eBooks.
• Michele Lee on The Best Short Fiction You're Missing Out On.
• Carl Brandon's Feb. Recommended Reading List.
• Humans Are Among Us ad.
• Shaun Farrel asks various personalities on the state of Spec Fic Magazines (also read the comments!).
• JF Quackenbush on Why I Hate Short Stories.
• Bookslut interviews Benjamin Parzybok.
• Greg van Eekhout has a soundtrack-deprived video on How to Write a Novel.
• Nicholas Kaufmann on The State of the Genre: The Grinning Skull.
• A video on Iron Chef Pear Battle: Team Alethea Kontis vs Team Mary Robinette Kowal.
• Bill Ward On Bookmarks.
• ColoredGirls.com has an interview with Sheree R. Thomas (Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora).
• Andrew Wheeler compiles some links of fantasy fans who don't like the US cover of Joe Abercrombie's new novel.
• Humorous post by Robert Freeman Wexler on The New Offbeat (quick, somebody write a manifesto!).
• Hal Duncan on What is Style?
• John Klima on The Shortest of Fictions.
• Dot Lin on Before the Con: Set-Up.
• Mort Castle on Why Prose Writers Need to Read Poetry.

Here's something to pre-order:

Palimpest by Catherynne M. Valente