February 10, 2009 Links and Plugs

Here's the juicy bits:

• The Shirley Jackson Awards Lottery is now live!
• Here's an interview with Lisa Mantchev.
• The Kindle 2 is at hand. Video of Stephen King on the Kindle.
  
• The Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) 2009 Reading List Awards.
• Optimistic SF in Ukraine.
• Judith Berman on Verisimilitude and the Woman Warrior, With Some Relevance to Fantasy Tropes.
• Jessica Faust on The Synopsis.
• Paul Witcover on A Take on Revolutionary SF.
• The Green Man Review holds a wake for The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.
• Odyssey Workshop has an interview with Carrie Vaughn.
• 4 Medical & Emotional Conditions Named for Mythological Characters.
• The song that killed Darkseid meme.
• Here's a quick video interview with Quirk Books with their accidental viral success on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ("...they said we were too small to sell it correctly...").

And here's a book from a friend:

Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean by James A. Owen & Jeremy Owen