The weekly web ramble (3/2)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Editor Molly O’Neill and Agent Michael Bourret kick off a series of posts all about Middle Grade fiction

– Peter Jackson shares another vlog from the set of The Hobbit

– Nathan Fillion stages a superhero-voice-actor intervention in The Daly Heroes (and it’s hilarious)

 <– AUTHOR TALK

– A Seanan McGuire interview that is made of awesome

– Ellen Potter, on adapting The Secret Garden

Gail Carriger discusses her Parasol Protectorate series

Jim Butcher and Benedict Jacka trade questions & answers about their respective Urban Fantasy series

WEB READS –>

– Check out an excerpt from Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

– Read the first 50 pages of Crucible of Gold, Naomi Novik‘s upcoming Temeraire novel

– Check out Harry and Marlow and the Talisman of of the Cult of Egil, a steampunk short story by Carrie Vaughn 

– Read an excerpt from The Legend of Diamond Lil (A J.J. Tully Mystery) by Doreen Cronin

– Check out an excerpt from Changeling, Philippa Gregory‘s first YA novel