The weekly web ramble (5/20

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Agent Mandy Hubbard talks trends in YA & MG

– And Agent Mandy also answers the big question of how much money writers actually make

– If you aren’t able to make it to Rick Riordan and James Patterson’s live event this coming Wednesday, May 26th, you can still watch it online, just click here at 6:30 PM EST

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Kim Harrington explains the cognitive looping that is writer’s block

– How found photographs sparked the idea for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

– Brianna Karp, author of The Girl’s Guide to Homelessness, on the reality of being homeless

– Karen Healey tells a true story to open the Auckland Writer’s Festival:

WEB READS –>

– Check out the first two chapters of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

– The Big Thrill has put together First Thrills, a new collection of crime short stories, and to give us a taste they’ve released Children’s Day, a new Miranda Corbie short story from Kelli Stanley! Check it out.

– Read the first six chapters of Relic Master by Catherine Fisher

– Check out the first three chapters of Nightspell by Leah Cypess

– Read the first two chapters from Shadow Raiders, by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes (just scroll to the  bottom of the page)