February 14, 2011 Links and Plugs

Just a heads up that I might not be updating the blog during the week of Feb. 21 ~ Feb. 25 due to work.

Interviews

• The Outer Alliance interviews Mark Allan Gunnells.
• Little Miss Zombie interviews Gemma Files.
• Jessica Strider interviews Jon Courtenay Grimwood.
• Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Ferrett Steinmetz (podcast).

Advice/Articles

• Christie Yant on Lessons From the Slush Pile: Your Cover Letter and You.
• Laura Anne Gilman on Practical Meerkat’s 52 Bits of Useful Info for Young (and Old) Writers, week 6.
• Marissa Day on The Sex Pt. 3 — Why?
• Dale Spindel on Ten misperceptions about public libraries.
• Juliette Wade on Story Arcs Again: Repetition and Development.
• Janice Hardy on If You Build it, They Will Read: Plotting With Layers.
• Jason Sanford on Why Doesn't Locus Review Daily Science Fiction?
• Mark Charan Newton on The Definitive New Weird Definition.
• Kameron Hurley on "Fearing the Woman in the Dark Alley".
• Mark Chadbourn on Finding Fantasy in The Past - The People.

News

• Laird Barron and Nicholas Kaufmann read at KGB February 16th.

Portents edited by Al Sarrantonio