There's a thing going around about a self-published autho...

There's a thing going around about a self-published author who posted a very self-aggrandizing giant-ego comment on a big fantasy book discussion forum and then started a fight with the moderators and other commenters. I'm not going to link to it, because I feel that about 50% of the time when someone does that, they are doing it deliberately knowing that starting an internet hatestorm is fabulous advertising for their books. People link to the fight on book discussion blogs everywhere, people leave tons of 1-star reviews on Amazon for their books (which doesn't do any good since Amazon pays more attention to total number of reviews than the star rating) and inevitably, people buy their books to see for themselves how bad they are, and their sales skyrocket. So I just don't link, because I don't want to give someone who does that even more free advertising, especially knowing that that may be exactly what they want.

So instead, here's a link to author Alex Bledsoe's interview with filmmaker Sterlin Harjo
Sterlin Harjo is an Oklahoma filmmaker with two extraordinary feature films under his belt. His first, Four Sheets to the Wind, is about a young man struggling to connect to the world after the loss of his father; Barking Water tells of two elderly lovers on a last road trip. Both are set against the background of Oklahoma Native Americans (Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Creek Nations), but they’re not special-interest films at all; they’re universal stories about feelings that we all have, against a unique and vivid cultural background.

And Congrats to the Nebula award winners!