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
