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Quick Updates for 2012-03-01

@ccfinlay I don't know. I can't duplicate the error message. # @willentrekin To be fair, we did say that if a book is only available at Amazon, we're keeping the link intact. # It is worth reading Tachyon Press's comment on the SFWA post about redirecting Amazon links. http://t.co/8VntdpKB #

Nebula Awards Interview: Christopher Barzak

I’ve written too many stories and books now to not notice patterns of theme, image, character type, etc, emerge over and over. It can be a bit disconcerting to see ones own obsessions so clearly after a while. But the upside is that you can then take possession of those obsessions consciously, and mold them in ways that you might not have when you hadn’t realized they were there in the first place.

In Memoriam: Mark Bourne

Author Mark Bourne, 50, died Saturday February 25, 2012.

His short fiction appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and numerous anthologies.

Why Poets Should Not Seek Literary Agents

Writer Beware hears from a fair number poets. Much of the time, they’re contacting us to ask about self-publishing, or to check the reputation of a journal or a contest. Sometimes, unfortunately, they’ve gotten mixed up with one of the vanity anthology companies, such as Eber and Wein.