The weekly web ramble (1/21)

Our weekly link round-up

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– Skottie Young, on his digital publishing experiment

– The Mystery Writers of America announced the Edgar Award nominees 2011

– Malinda Lo and Cindy Pon launch Diversity in YA website

– Literary Agent Janet Reid, on the difference between a pitch and a query

– Ilona Andrews gives us a parody trailer for Magic Slays:

<–AUTHOR TALK

– Carrie Vaughn on characterization

– Jon Courtenay Grimwood on the many ghosts of Venice

– Dori Jones Yang, on her research for her historical YA novel, Daughter of Xanadu

WEB READS –>

– Peek at Chapter three of Pale Demon by Kim Harrison

– From Ilona Andrews, a Curran POV scene from the end of Magic Bleeds

– Peek at Catherynne M. Valente‘s Deathless

– Peek at The False Princess by Eilis O’Neal