The weekly web ramble (8/12)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

 – Maureen Ryan talks Game of Thrones (the TV show) with George R.R. Martin

– John Connolly and Declan Hughes have listed ten crime books you have to read before you die

– Feel like a dose of old school PBS? Acorn Media has started a streaming service and you can try it for free, now through 8/31

– NPR gives us the top 100 books in Sci Fi & Fantasy (according to their audience poll)

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Tamora Pierce is one majorly unhappy camper

– Patricia Briggs on writing and where she finds inspiration

– Kevin Hearne on where he got the idea for his Iron Druid chronicles

– Diana Peterfreund answers questions about her upcoming Persuasion-inspired YA, For Darkness Shows The Stars

– Cindy Pon talks about sex (in her novels)

WEB READS –>

– Take a peek at Rachel Caine‘s latest, Working Stiff

– Check out an excerpt from Lia Habel‘s Dearly Departed 

– Read an excerpt from Touch of Frost (Mythos Academy #1) by Jennifer Estep

– You can download & read the first chapter of Gregg Olson‘s Envy

– Read an excerpt from Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence 

– Take a peek at The Power of Six (the sequel to I Am Number Four), from Pittacus Lore