The weekly linkage round-up
WEB OF INTEREST ->
– The strangest places children’s book editors have been pitched a book
– Tor.com has a round up of January’s sci/fantasy short fiction
– A concerned literary agent points out a troubling clause in the new Macmillan contact
– China Mieville‘s web comic, London Intrusion, in its entirety
– Jim C. Hines gives us 20 (hilarious) Neil Gaiman facts
<–AUTHOR TALK
– Scott Westerfeld breaks down the BitchMedia YA list controversy
– Philip Pullman‘s speech on saving the Oxfordshire libraries
– China Mieville on how he started writing genre
– A conversation with Ben Aaronovitch, author of Midnight Riot
WEB READS–>
– Read an excerpt from Carrie Vaughn‘s upcoming swashbuckling YA, Steel
– Ilona Andrews gives us part 2 of the Curran POV scene (from the end of Magic Bleeds)
– Kim Harrison gives us chapter 4 of Pale Demon
– Check out True Grit: Mean Business, a free 24 page graphic novel adapted from the novel by Charles Portis
– 50 page Friday: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V.S. Redick
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