The weekly web ramble (4/15)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– School Library Journal on the Harper Collins vs. libraries e-book kerfuffle

– Peter Jackson shares tantalizing video from the set of The Hobbit

– In honor of National Poetry Month, MediaBistro unearthed a reading of Roald Dahl‘s Cinderella (from Revolting Rhymes):

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Gail Carriger shares her favorite sources for Victorian London and steampunk research

– Holly Black on her curse workers series and diversity

– Richelle Mead reveals some details about her upcoming Vampire Academy spin-off series, Bloodlines

– Aimee Carter, author of The Goddess Test, explains why Hades wasn’t so bad

– Deanna Raybourn‘s take on the new Wonder Woman

– Plus some of her favorite sources for Victoriana and poisons research

– Catherynne M. Valente on Russian Myth and Folklore

WEB READS –>

– Read an excerpt from Divergent, Veronica Roth‘s upcoming (and much buzzed) dystopian YA

– Ilona Andrews gives us a snippet from her upcoming book, Fate’s Edge (The Edge #3)

– Check out an excerpt from Blood Magic, a paranormal YA from Tessa Gratton

– Tor.com has Kim Stanley Robinson’s dystopian SF short, The Lunatics, up for our reading pleasure

– A short by Cory Doctorow,Chicken Little, is also up on Tor.com – this story was originally printed in Gateways, an anthology of original stories inspired by science fiction great Frederik Pohl

– A peek at The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross

– Read the first two chapters of Uncommon Criminals (Heist Society #2) by Ally Carter (you just have to scroll down a bit)