Byrt’s weekly blog ramble (11/5)

Our weekly trundle through the Tweetverse and Blogosphere

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– The hilarious story of when The Bloggess met Neil Gaiman at w00tstock

– io9’s environmental (disaster) writing contest

– The Cooks Source scandal

– The Supreme Court case on violent video games

– John Cleese, bookseller:

<–AUTHOR TALK

Scott Westerfeld responds to Steampunk haters

Stephen Fry sets the record straight

Seanan McGuire on book piracy

Janice Hardy, looking back on her first two years as an author

– SFBC interviews Jim Butcher at NYCC:

– Peter Orullian interviews Brian Sanderson:

WEB READS –>

The Steampunk quartet by Eileen Gunn, from Tor.com

– Chapters one, two and three from The Broken Kingdom by N.K. Jemisin