Author Laura Lemay (@lemay) spoke with Elecia (@logicalelegance) about writing books, APIs, code, and science fiction. 

Laura wrote many of the Teach Yourself ... in 21 Days books: her bibliography on Amazon.

Laura's blog includes short stories. 

November is National Novel Writing Month, see the NaNoWriMo site

Edward Tufte wrote the amazing Envisioning Information (among many other beautiful and informative books)

Neal Stephenson wrote Diamond Age

Laura suggests Patrick Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go