Friday Reads & Links - 2/20/2015

I'm traveling this weekend, so I have lots of reading opportunities! I'm reading "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins in ebook, and loving it so far; listening to "The Spindlers" by Lauren Oliver as a short read to tide me over until some of my library audiobook holds come in next week; and reading "Boy, Snow, Bird" in print for my DC book club. Great picks all around!

Some literary links to keep you warm this frigid weekend:

• I love seeing alternate covers & hearing about the design process. The Huffington Post has a feature on rejected covers for the newly-released "Find Me" by Laura Van Den Berg. 
• New (to English-readers) Murakami story!
• If your tastes are similarly whimsical but tend toward kid-lit, a new Dr. Seuss book is on the way.
• George R.R. Martin warns ASoIaF readers of new, extra deaths in season five of Game of Thrones.
• While I don't read a ton of self-published fiction, this novelist who has made an award list with her kick-started book has me intrigued.