Combat Veteran called this to our attention in the Welcome thread, but I thought I'd call it out here where no-one will miss it: Our own Jeremy Minton ("The Wrong End of the Stick," Aeon Three) is the subject of the (09 June) John Joseph Adams interview below.

www.tuginternet.com/jja/jour...2642.html

Among other points that make this a great interview for a new or new-ish writer is the fact that Jeremy's recent sale to F&Sf was his first. Think about that for just a moment; his first professional sale was to one of the Really Big Markets, and perhaps the hardest one to crack. I battered at that paraticular door for six years or more before anyone opened it and handed me a contract, and that's probably a more typical scenario.

Jeremy gives a lot of credit for his success to Critters (www.critters.org), one of the more respected and celebrated online writers' workshops, but you can critter (new verb entered into the language by these guys) a story until you're old and grey and not get a sale to Gordon van Gelder unless you've got some mad skills, and we knew Jeremy had those when we read "Stick."