Byrt’s weekly blog ramble (11/12)

Our weekly trundle through the blogosophere and tweetverse

<–WEB OF INTEREST

– Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon will crack you up with their Michael Cain impressions:

– Ian McKellen hilariously describes filming the Bridge of Khazad-dum sequence:

PBS chats with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the co-creators of Sherlock

J.K. Rowling is considering more wizarding books – but they won’t star Harry Potter

– If you write a note here, it will be printed out and put into Tom Clancy books that are being given to recovering soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center

AUTHOR TALK –>

Sophia McDougall stands up for steampunk

Ally Carter, on book piracy

Marjorie M. Liu interviews Clay and Susan Griffiths, authors of The Greyfriar

Mercedes Lackey on her first sale

<–WEB READS

– Baen is giving the world the entire Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold FREE

Check out the first 50 pages of Lucy A. Snyder‘s Spellbent

– A peek at the first 12 pages of the new English translation of Adele Blanc-Sec, from Fantagraphics

Both a rip-roaring adventure series set in pre-World War I Paris and a parody of same, Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi has been enchanting, thrilling, and puzzling readers worldwide through four decades.

A deleted scene from Brenna Yovanoff‘s The Replacement

A deleted scene from Ally Carter‘s Only the Good Spy Young