The weekly web ramble (1/9)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Eric Smith of Quirk Books shares his anticipated early 2015 YA debuts

– Why Norman, OK matters

– The #SVYALit project

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Sana Amanat talks myths, misfits, and masks

– Marjorie Liu introduces Monstress, her new series at Image

– Robin McKinley tackles Tor.com’s pop quiz at the end of the universe

– Malinda Lo on self-rejection and writing from a marginalized perspective

– Fiona Staples, the artist behind Saga, shares her process

WEB READS –>

– Read the first thirty pages of All Fall Down by Ally Carter

– Check out the first five chapters of Playlist for the Dead by Michelle Falkoff 

– Read an excerpt from The Just City by Jo Walton

– Check out the first twenty pages of What the Moon Said by Gayle Rosengren