The weekly web ramble (10/11)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

New Trends in YA: The Agents’ Perspective

Jezebel takes a look at the ways Disney is undermining Frozen‘s heroines

<– AUTHOR TALK

Maggie Stiefvater on her mood-changing style

Anne Ursu shares the inspiration behind The Real Boy

Veronica Roth talks the genesis of Divergent

Phoebe North takes on the question of “prettiness”

WEB READS –>

Dead Set

– Check out the first two chapters of Dead Set by Richard Kadrey

Copperhead

– Read an excerpt from Copperhead by Tina Connolly

Across a starswept sea

– Check out the first seven chapters of Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

Red Rising

– Read an excerpt from Red Rising by Pierce Brown