The weekly web ramble (8/14)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

The rise of the female superhero

– The real-life story that inspired Scott O’Dell‘s Isle of the Blue Dolphins

<– AUTHOR TALK

The story of Ilona and Gordon Andrews

Will Taylor on why he writes middle grade

N.K. Jemisin talks world building

Zen Cho on revising (again and again)

WEB READS –>

A Riddle in Ruby

– Read the first eight chapters of A Riddle in Ruby by Kent Davis

The Fifth Season

– Check out an excerpt from The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

A Curious Beginning

– Read an excerpt from A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourne

Linesman

– Check out the first chapter of Linesman by S.K. Dunstall