The weekly web ramble (3/18)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– A first look behind the scenes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2!

– For a short while, you could have checked a therapy dog out from the Yale Law Library. Seriously.

– And now Borders is closing even more stores – here’s the new list

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Kim Harrison was on the B&N community boards this week, answering fan questions – including one from me:

Byrt: Wlll we see more of Rachel trying to save Ivy’s soul, and do you have an idea of which book that will happen in? (I can’t wait :). Also, will Ivy get a big kick ass moment soon? It seems like lately a lot of her action has been happening off page, and I miss her…

Kim: Yes, I have about three ways I can do it, so when I get to that point, I’ll chose what makes the most sense. Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t. I miss Ivy, too. The last book will be very Ivy rich.

– Meet Stephen Blackmoore, an author who didn’t realize he’d written an Urban Fantasy novel

– Franny Billingsley talks Chime

– Richelle Mead on the strange and nefarious ways of her neighbors

– Kristen Britain on using Maine as the setting for her Green Rider series

– Jasper Fforde explains the amusing premise of his latest book, One of our Thursdays is Missing:

– Patricia Briggs at the University Bookstore, the Seattle stop on her River Marked tour:

WEB READS –>

– Read the first three chapters of Huntress by Malinda Lo

– Check out an excerpt from The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham

– You can read C.C. Hunter’s short story Turned at Dark, the prequel to her upcoming YA, Born at Midnight, here

– And you can read an excerpt from Born at Midnight here

– Read an excerpt from Douglas Hulick‘s upcoming novel, Among Thieves

– Suvudu’s 50 page Friday: Oath of Fealty by Elizabeth Moon

– And a tiny, early peek at Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan