The weekly web ramble (6/24)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– For those few who missed the big Pottermore announcement:

– Paid Content breaks down three ways Pottermore.com could change publishing

– Flavorwire has listed The 30 harshest Author-on-Author insults in history

– Jen Campbell shares some of the weird things people say in bookstores

<–AUTHOR TALK

– Lena Coakley on minding the gap, as a writer

– Neil Gaiman reflects on ten years of American Gods

– Maggie Stiefvater on blood, guts, the F-bomb, and your Mom

– Michael D. Beil shares the top 5 reasons to write Middle Grade mystery

– Maryrose Wood on The Poison Diaries and more

– Greg van Eekhout on the cover of The Boy at the End of the World (a midst murmurs of whitewashing)

– Malinda Lo has a message for her adult readers

WEB READS –>

– Check out chapters one and two of the Ghost Story, Jim Butcher‘s upcoming Dresden novel

– Take a peek at the prologue of Naomi Novik’s upcoming Temeraire novel, Crucible of Gold

– Check out the first chapter of Damned (Crusade #2) by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie

– Read the first two chapters of The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout

– Check out the prologue of Marie Brennan‘s upcoming Onyx Court novel, With Fate Conspire