The weekly web ramble (6/29)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Why it takes so long for a book to be published

– From The New Yorker, Nora Ephron‘s gentle send-up of Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Fixed the Umlat

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Seanan McGuire (aka Mira Grant) on how she perfected her zombie virus

– Kiersten White tackles the criticisms of Pixar’s Brave

– Dean Koontz on the Odd Thomas movie adaptation (and why he actually likes it)

– Leigh Bardugo talks Shadow and Bone

WEB READS –>

– Read the first three chapters of Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff

– Check out an excerpt from The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters

– Read an excerpt of Tiger Lily, a Peter Pan retelling by Jodi Lynn Anderson

– Check out an excerpt of Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier