Our weekly trundle through the Tweetverse and Blogosphere
<–BLOGGY INTERESTING
- the Jungle Red writers point out a sweet story in NYC that all started with reading
- After Glenn Beck took umbrage at Machine of Death‘s success, the Machine of Death blog posted this hilarious reply
Machine of Death is an indy published collection of sci-fi short stories from Ryan North, David Malki and Matthew Bennardo – it beat out Beck’s latest book for the #1 spot on Tuesday
- The Mad Hatter asked a dozen authors to tell us what steampunk is…
- Interview with amazing cover artist Don de Santos (he creates the Mercy Thompson covers, among many others)
AUTHOR TALK –>
- Maggie Stiefvater, on how she somehow ended up agreeing to give a speech for NASA
- A Jennifer Rardin interview, completed before she passed away
- Elizabeth Moon on the WisCon controversy
<–WEB READS
- Peek at The Greyfriar, steampunky vampire goodness from Clay and Susan Griffith, coming Nov 2
- Peek at chapter one of Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brian Sanderson, out next week
- Read the first hundred pages of Cross Fire, James Patterson‘s upcoming Alex Cross book
- Cool peek at the Steampunk Bible, coming 2011 from Jeff VanderMeer and S.J. Chambers
