The weekly web ramble (3/25)

Links from the web jungle.

WEB OF INTEREST –>

Seven things novelists should know about screenwriting, from Derek Haas

– Presenting Lenore’s Lenore Appelhans announces her book AND film deal!

– Abe Books’ top 25 list of the best alternative histories in literature

– Abe Books also has a list of books on magic, in honor of Houdini’s birthday this week

– Flavorwire dares to list 10 movies they think were better than the books

<–AUTHOR TALK

Kim Harrison talks the Hollows, Vampires, and being a writer

Sarah Rees Brennan gives us a glimpse of her next book series, a Gothic YA trilogy

Devon Monk, on her kryptonite

Brenna Yovanoff on boredom and curiosity

Dean Thorpe shares his ideas for a YA series that could have been – Lois Lane, Girl Reporter

WEB READS–>

– Check out an excerpt from Dead Reckoning, Charlaine Harris‘ upcoming Sookie Stackhouse novel

– From Tor.com: The Desecrator, a short story by Steven Brust

Peek at Dark Jenny, the third book in Alex Bledsoe‘s Eddie LaCrosse series

– Check out Wishing Well, the first short story Patricia Briggs ever sold

– Read an excerpt from Forget Her Nots by Amy Brecount White