Afternoon links.
So many open that my COMPUTER IS SMOKING:
- There's an excerpt from Karen Healey's When We Wake up at Tor. SO EXCITED to read it, as I've loved her other books, ESPECIALLY The Shattering. (via FW)
- At Stacked: "Best of" 2012 Lists Revisited: How Do YALSA's "Best of" Lists Compare?
- Erik P. Kraft rates a certain hotel in California.
- Beth Revis on what makes a good teen novel: "Your story cannot be so vague that just anyone could narrate it – your narrator must be the one person who can tell the story in this way."
- Willems Shakespeare.
- Bookshelvers Anonymous on Paper Lantern Lit: "I must admit, when I first read the article, my response was not positive. It felt squicky (an icky thing that makes you squirm). To me, if felt like a cold, calculating idea factory, rather than the organic, love-based process that writing a book should be." It's basically a packaging company like Alloy, no? Or the Stratemeyer Syndicate? Also, PLL did Venom? I... couldn't even finish it, and that's a rarity for me.
- Timewaster: The Random Conspiracy Generator.
- Timewaster the second: Jack Donaghy Insult Generator.
- What Claudia Wore argues that BSC fashions are alive and well.
- Lauren DeStefano has a new upcoming series: USA Today says it will be "...utopian, not dystopian. The series, called (perhaps ironically) The Internment Chronicles, kicks off on Feb. 11, 2014, with Perfect Ruin."
- Redditors argue about whether or not this graph depicting the length of fantasy books means anything.
- My hair is probably going to be completely white before I'm forty. So this was an especially interesting piece for me. (via Sharyn November'sFB)
- New to my feedreader: Corsets, Cutlasses, & Candlesticks.