Our weekly web round-up
WEB OF INTEREST –>
– L.J. Smith gets booted from The Vampire Diaries
– The coming end of Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse series
– How publishing is like The Princess Bride
– Jane Friedman on how McSweeney’s views on the future of publishing are too rosy
– The real cost of e-books
– Authors who have found success with self-publishing
<–AUTHOR TALK
– Ursula Le Guin on writing genre
– Edgar nominated Bruce Desilva on his background as a journalist
– Meet Keigo Higashino, the author of the upcoming thriller The Devotion of Suspect X
– Joe Abercrombie on his favorite cinematic fight scenes
– Emily St. John Mandel on bad reviews
– The BBC has brief writing tips from 12 authors, including Stephanie Burgis, Cressida Cowell, and Michelle Harrison
– Neil Gaiman‘s take on book piracy:
WEB READS –>
– Check out Jesse Bullington‘s short, The Adventures of Ernst, who began a Man, became a Cyclops, and finished a Hero
– 50 Page Friday: Dust by Elizabeth Bear, the first book in her Jacob’s Latter trilogy, (Chill, book #2, has been nominated for the Philip K. Dick award)
– An excerpt from Deborah Harkness‘ Discovery of Witches
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