The weekly web ramble (7/1)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– JB Dickey, owner of the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, explains why he won’t support Amazon’s new mystery imprint

– The 2011 Locus Award winners

– Agent Ginger Clark explains why world rights, one cover isn’t the best idea

<– AUTHOR TALK

Neil Gaiman on why it’s worth defending the freedom of icky speech

Carrie Vaughn shares her sources for Chinese mythology

Andrew Smith shares a lonely YA reflection

Jonathan Auxier shares 5 things he learned at ALA

– Orbit podcast Episode #4: an interview with Mira Grant

WEB READS –>

– Check out chapter three of Jim Butcher‘s Ghost Story

– Stephanie Burgis has posted the first chapter of A Tangle of Magicks (aka Renegade Magic, Kat, Incorrigible #2) for our reading pleasure

– Tor has posted Carrie Vaughn‘s short story, “Ghost Girl Takes Manhattan” from the Wild Cards anthology

– Also from Tor, check out the second chapter of Brian Sanderson‘s The Alloy of Law

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