Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
- For those who ever wondered how HBO can afford to make Game of Thrones
- And here are 9 clips from season two of Game of Thrones (which premieres this Sunday)
<– AUTHOR TALK
- Kristin Cashore rebuts Joel Stein’s New York Times piece on why adults shouldn’t read YA
- And Foz Meadows calls out the blatant sexism of that very same Joel Stein op-ed
- Meanwhile Lev Grossman defends adult readers who enjoy YA
- In other news, Vicky Alvear Shecter takes on the darker side of Greek myths
- And Catherynne M. Valente responds to The Tears of Christopher Priest
-WEB READS –>
- Read an excerpt from The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Check out an excerpt from Uglies: Shay’s Story by Scott Westerfeld and Devin Grayson
- Read an excerpt from The Girl in the Park by Mariah Fredericks
- Check out the first three chapters of Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy
