The weekly web ramble (10/31)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

What Westeros really looks like, according to George R.R. Martin

LeVar Burton reads Go the F*** to Sleep

<– AUTHOR TALK

Neil Gaiman on the value of scary stories

Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) unveils 10 epidemics waiting to happen (that you won’t enjoy)

Maya Angelou shares the story of her stepfather’s long con

A Q&A with Robin LaFevers

John Green on why we need diverse books

WEB READS –>

The Map to Everywhere

– Read the first forty pages of The Map to Everywhere by Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis

Pennyroyal Academy

– Check out the first forty pages of Pennyroyal Academy by M.A. Larson

The Ghosts of Heaven

– Read the first forty pages of The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

Half Bad

– Check out the first thirty pages of Half-Bad by Sally Green