The weekly web ramble (4/4)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– ALA responds to the Republican budget’s proposed elimination of library funding

– 10 children’s book quotes that probably changed your life

<– AUTHOR TALK

N.K. Jemisin tackles confirmation bias in epic fantasy

Natalie Whipple shares her too-practical maybe-blunt advice for writers

Katherine Addison talks quests and coming of age stories

Laurie Halse Anderson on the John Green-ification of YA (with a follow-up by Kelly Jensen

WEB READS –>

Salvage

– Check out the first eight chapters of Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

The Clockwork Dagger

– Read an excerpt from The Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato

Death Spiral

– Check out an excerpt of Death Spiral by Janie Chodosh

Lockstep

– Read the first two chapters of Lockstep by Karl Schroeder