The weekly web ramble (8/26)

Links from the web jungle

WEB OF INTEREST –>

– The Mary Sue has a brilliant response to the New York Times article bemoaning the lack of books for boys

– One Minute Book Reviews asked editors, publishers and critics to decode publishing buzzwords, clichés and euphemisms, with hilarious results

– Word for Teens shares an interesting take on the Disney Princesses

– Indie Bound has a compiled a list of 20 new YA/MG authors we should know

<– AUTHOR TALK

– Kelli Stanley shares a few of her favorite femme fatales

– Deanna Raybourn answers fan questions

– Clay and Susan Griffith on fairy tale themes

–  Ilona Andrews explains the monetary difference between publishing in hard cover vs paperback

WEB READS –>

– Check out The Slippers, a short story by Sheela Chari (author of Vanished)

– Read In This Tower, an Anna Dressed in Blood short story from Kendare Blake

– Check out an excerpt from Posses by Gretchen McNeil

– Read an excerpt from Witchlanders by Lena Coakley

– Check out an excerpt from The Princess Curse by Merrie Haskell