All the links I’ve been hoarding:

• With Veterans’ Day coming up, it’s a good time to remember how children are affected by war.
• Cave paintings to Amazon: a brief history of publishing.
• A reading list for Harry Potter characters.
• Forget the rules: write opening lines that work for your stories.
• Not that I’m biased or anything, but Boston is an awesome literary city.
• Pets. In. Costume.
• Cannot wait for Bleed Like Me.
• These book-inspired beers need to be real and a bookstore/bar near me.
• Writing “unlikeable” girl characters and how readers react to them.
• Maggie Smith basically made Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter, continues to be the best.
• A playlist for Andrew Ladd’s upcoming novel, What Ends, aka that book about a Scottish family that will give you all the feels.
• Inspiring writing quotes to power you through NaNoWriMo.
• Excellent post on the Ender’s Game movie and how we can use it as a teachable moment.
• Series you may have missed and need to check out. Or revisit. Because SO GOOD.
• Elizabeth Wein looks at who’s reading and buying teen novels.
• A guide to all the dystopian plot elements Katniss could want from a book.
• A fun YA reading flowchart.
• Writing about mental illness from the inside.
• Rejections facts for when you need to keep going.
• Excellent look at the actual gender breakdown of the New York Times YA Bestseller List.