The weekly web ramble (11/11)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Alan Rickman discusses playing Severus Snape

– Scholastic shares a preview of their spring 2012 collection

<– AUTHOR TALK

Sara Zarr on how she finds inspiration in failure

Nina LaCour‘s classy response to an attempt to ban her book

A.J. Hartley on writing his first MG novel

WEB READS –>

– Read an excerpt from Partials by Dan Wells 

– Check out an excerpt from The Shadow Reader by Sandy Williams

– Read the first 50 pages of Lord of Snow and Shadows by Sarah Ash

– Check out the first chapter of Swell, a novel by Corwin Ericson