Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
- School Library Journal on the Harper Collins vs. libraries e-book kerfuffle
- Peter Jackson shares tantalizing video from the set of The Hobbit
- In honor of National Poetry Month, MediaBistro unearthed a reading of Roald Dahl‘s Cinderella (from Revolting Rhymes):
<– AUTHOR TALK
- Gail Carriger shares her favorite sources for Victorian London and steampunk research
- Holly Black on her curse workers series and diversity
- Richelle Mead reveals some details about her upcoming Vampire Academy spin-off series, Bloodlines
- Aimee Carter, author of The Goddess Test, explains why Hades wasn’t so bad
- Deanna Raybourn‘s take on the new Wonder Woman
- Plus some of her favorite sources for Victoriana and poisons research
- Catherynne M. Valente on Russian Myth and Folklore
WEB READS –>
- Read an excerpt from Divergent, Veronica Roth‘s upcoming (and much buzzed) dystopian YA
- Ilona Andrews gives us a snippet from her upcoming book, Fate’s Edge (The Edge #3)
- Check out an excerpt from Blood Magic, a paranormal YA from Tessa Gratton
- Tor.com has Kim Stanley Robinson’s dystopian SF short, The Lunatics, up for our reading pleasure
- A short by Cory Doctorow,Chicken Little, is also up on Tor.com – this story was originally printed in Gateways, an anthology of original stories inspired by science fiction great Frederik Pohl
- A peek at The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
- Read the first two chapters of Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society #2) by Ally Carter (you just have to scroll down a bit)
