Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
- Via The New Yorker, Ray Badbury shares the inspiration behind his story, The Fire Balloons
- Walter Dean Myer‘s keynote address from SLJ’s 2012 Day of Dialog:
- Peter Jackson’s latest vlog from the set of The Hobbit:
<– AUTHOR TALK
- Neil Gaiman remembers Ray Bradbury and shares an intro he (Neil) wrote for The Machineries of Joy
- Ray Bradbury‘s 12 pieces of writing advice for young authors
- Vicky Alver Shecter shares possible archaelogical evidence of female gladiators
- Deanna Raybourn on why and how she writes
WEB READS –>
- Read an excerpt from For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
- Check out an excerpt of The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson
- Read the first chapter of Who Could That Be At This Hour? by Lemony Snickets (aka Daniel Handler)
- Check out the first chapter of The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand
