Book News (and other fun stuff!): February 1st, 2013

Here’s my roundup of bookish news from around the web for the week! Sometimes I add stuff throughout the day on Friday, so be sure you check back over the weekend too!

Interviews, excerpts, articles, and more:

• Author Myke Cole is on John Scalzi’s “The Big Idea”
• At her blog, Jesse Petersen, author of the Living With the Dead series, tells us why life will be better under our zombie overlords.
• For noir fans: I reviewed HARD TWISTED by C. Joseph Greaves at Crime Fiction Lover this week.
• And for Urban Fantasy fans, I reviewed EVER AFTER by Kim Harrison at SF Signal.
• John DeNardo (of SF Signal) talks about his scifi/fantasy picks for February at Kirkus!
• There’s a guest blog by Francis Knight, author of the upcoming FADE TO BLACK, over at The Qwillery!
• You can watch Brandon Sanderson write his new Stormlight book in real time! Tor.com has the scoop!
• GalleyCat has an interesting article about the financial reality of a genre author.
• Read an excerpt of WITHOUT A SUMMER by Mary Robinette Kowal at Tor.com
• It’s Character Love Letter time at Vampire Book Club! This is always a fun event, so be sure to check it out (just in time for Valentine’s Day!)
• GIVEAWAY: You can win Jay Lake’s entire GREEN series at SF Signal!
• Holy cow!! One of my favorite books of 2012, THE MAN FROM PRIMROSE LANE by James Renner, is being prepped for the big screen!
• Love the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead? The Heathers writer and Mean Girls director are teaming up for the movie! i09 has the scoop!

Yoko Ogawa’s REVENGE: Eleven Dark Tales went on sale last week-here’s the trailer!