Links from the web jungle
WEB OF INTEREST –>
- Quentin Blake takes us on a tour of Roald Dahl‘s writing shed
- Oxford Dictionaries on the swishwifflingly scrumdiddlyumptious language of Roald Dahl
- Once again YA controversy hit the web this week: it began when Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith discussed their dismay at being told by an agent to straighten out a gay character in their YA novel
- Then literary agent Joanna Stampfel-Volpe revealed she was the above mentioned agent, and contradicted Brown and Smith’s account of what happened
- Rachel Manija Brown then posted a response
<– AUTHOR TALK
- Cat Hellisen takes a look at her own complicity in the lack of gay characters in YA
- Malinda Lo answers the question: how hard it is to sell an LGBT YA novel?
- Kelli Stanley on the women behind Miranda Corbie
- Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier co-conspired to write a vampire novel - Sarah explains how it all came about and Justine shares the joys and pains of co-writing
WEB READS –>
- Read an excerpt from Dead Mann Walking by Stefan Petrucha
- Check out an excerpt from All Men of Genius by Lev A.C. Rosen
- Read the first two chapters of Matched by Ally Condie
- Check out an excerpt of Fateful by Claudia Grey
