Still Busy!

Hi guys! I’m still snowed under, but keep those entries going in the Bite Me Giveaway Post. I’ll keep it open until Friday.

A few links of interest from around the web:

Alaya Dawn Johnson’s take on Angry Black Woman regarding the Larbalestier cover controversy. One of the side issues of this whole kerfuffle to me is that LIAR, which is an incredibly awesome novel, is getting way more press for its disingenuous cover than for the amazing story contained inside. I hope it doesn’t overshadow the wonderfulness of the novel.

100 Scope Notes gallery of joke YA covers. Playing off the cliches of modern YA title and cover conventions, we automatically generated a few. These are the results. And yes, I am so calling YANK. I picture it as a sort of modern, Palahniuk body-horror kind of thing. Of the ones I didn’t make myself, I’m particularly partial to BEND and WONDER.

Jenny Crusie talks about turning points. Always a good thing to keep in mind, and very similar to my own “four act” plotting method.