The weekly web ramble (10/28)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

The Guardian explores the best times to write

– Meet The Book Smugglers

<– AUTHOR TALK

Bethany Griffin remembers when she almost gave up on writing

Veronica Roth takes on insta-love

– Tamora Pierce, Esther Freisner, and Caitilin Kittredge on the Girls Kick Butt panel at New York Comic-con 2011:

WEB READS –>

– Read the first chapter of five November releases from Penguin: Matched by Ally Condie; Legend by Marie Lu; The Brotherband Chronicles by John FlanaganThe Future of Us by Jay Asher & Carolyn Macker; and Playground by 50 Cent

– Meet Flavia de Luce: you can read the first chapter of all four of Alan Bradley‘s delightful mysteries, including the upcoming I Am Half-Sick of Shadows 

– Check out an excerpt from The Tempest by Julie Cross

– From Tor.com: Wishbone, a short story by Cherie Priest from the Creatures Anthology