Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
- The 2010 Nebula Award nominees
- The 2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalists
- Kirkus Reviews’ list of starred Mystery reviews of 2011 (so far)
- NPR has the 2011 books-into-films lineup
- Joshua Foer (co-founder of Atlas Obscura), author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, on how he trained his brain to become a world-class memory athlete
- Wendell Potter, author of Deadly Spin, an insider’s account of health insurance practices, explains what to look out for when shopping for a health insurance policy
<– AUTHOR TALK
- Sean Beaudoin is one funny YA writer
- Y.S. Lee on the pretty pink girl thing
- Megan McCafferty talks Bumped, her upcoming dystopian YA
- Kim Harrison answers six questions
- Ilona Andrews explains the legality of using real people in fiction
WEB READS –>
- Dark, creepy fantasy short The Yew’s Embrace by Francesca Forrest, from Strange Horizons
- 50 page Fridays: The Raven Queen by Jules Watson
- New excerpt from Steel by Carrie Vaughn, out 3/15
- Peek at chapter one of Carrie Vaughn‘s After the Golden Age, out 4/12
- Excerpt from Megan McCafferty’s Bumped, out 5/1
