The weekly web ramble (8/17)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– A psychologist explains why Sherlock Holmes is not a Sociopath

Cory Doctorow on Hachette’s move to double down on DRM

<– AUTHOR TALK

Maggie Stiefvater briefly gets political

– A four-part interview with Gail Carriger

– From Leaky-Con’s I was A Teenage Writer panel, Holly Black bravely and hilariously shares just how bad her writing was in 8th grade:

– And from that very same Leaky-Con panel, Scott Westerfeld does the same:

WEB READS –>

– Read the first chapter of The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) by Richelle Mead

– Check out an excerpt from The Unnaturalists by Tiffany Trent

– Read the first two chapters of Outpost by Ann Aguirre

– Check out an excerpt from Wake by Amanda Hocking