The Business of Writing

How not to make your cover designer cry

Harry Connolly on Tim Pratt's advice about agents

Bradley P. Beaulieu on unsuccessful and successful Kickstarters.

Interview with Neil Clarke, Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine

The Stephen King Guide to Writing as a Business

John Green on never self-publishing

Links Scientific, LIterary, and Points Between

Literary links

20 Best Paranormal Fantasy Novels of the Last Decade

Kate Elliott on information in openings

On Self-Publishing:

1. Why Dean Wesley Smith believes in it
2. Why Charles Stross does not
3. Bradley P. Beaulieu Goes Hybrid 
4. Hugh Howey to the Aspiring

Contrarian Literary links

(Not) Celebrating 50 years of Strunk & White (disagreements over grammar)

Would a magazine -- any -- reject material it's already published?

Anis Shivany's 15 most over-rated contemporary authors

• Presented without comment 

Borderland:  Addressing Science from Another Perspective

Myke Cole on PTSD

• Cat Rambo on a similar subject except as it applies to writing

Maya Bohnhoff on Science vs. Religion (responding to Lawrence Krauss)

Scientific Links

Filtering salt from salt water -- End fresh water problems for coastal areas?

Reviving passenger pigeons from extinction?

Trigger drugs when needed.

Coming Global Population Decline?

Oddities

Mockumentary:  Was the destruction of the Death Star an inside job?

Writing Links

Mary Robinette Kowal on her writing process

Kevin J. Anderson on his writing process

Boing Boing links to a former grammar snob and why she isn't so snobby.

Lester Dent, 30s pulp writer, on story structure.

Links Between Depression, Writers and Suicide

Bradley P. Beaulieu's Reddit Interview

Some Kind of Fairy Tale book group

Links

Opinion piece on "unschooling"

Movies to change your life?

Exclusive Mary Shelley interview: On Frankenstein's origin

Short-story collection from Bradley P. Beaulieu:  For $5, you get the collection and his first novel.  If enough people contribute, you'll get his second novel as well.  Other categories for a various goodies.

Asexual, unicellular organism consumes DNA instead of mating.

Pictures of a Paris apartment kept by an artist's girlfriend has been untouched since before WWII.

Mothers keep living cells of children in their brains.

Science & Writing

This was fun and awe-inspiring for students:  displaying the wind map and cloud cover map as Hurricane Sandy passed over the US.

Via IO9, we learn of the internet archive of OMNI magazine, a cool mix of science, paranormal and SF.

How to make your head spin 360 degrees (animation).

NY finds body entwined in tree roots (not unusual).

Christopher Priest and Tobias Buckell discuss their juvenalia to the aid of writers.

SF Poetry contest winners

Interviews

Bradley P. Beaulieu (annoyingly loads up ads constantly)

Christopher Barzak