Lots of good links:

• Major thanks to Mackenzi for choosing The Chance You Won’t Return as part of her book recommendations for holiday shopping!
• Also way psyched to be listed among such awesome authors at GReads!
• This interview with children’s book great Katherine Paterson is a must-read.
• Norman Bridwell, creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, passed away this week.
• It’s okay to want to play princesses.
• Christa shares awesome advice about self-promotion.
• Rocking out with wizards.
• Really really really excited for the Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell movie.
• After reading And We Stay, I’m even more fascinated by Emily Dickinson.
• “In YA, there are few safe spaces for fat teens.” Great post, and an issue I hope changes dramatically very soon.
• Adding some genre fiction to the classics.
• “You think your friends are really cool and stylish, but you are wrong, because you are in 8th grade,” and other ways to tell if you’re in a BSC book.
• The only age-based list of writers I want to read.
• Lots of inspiration in these great lines.
• American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL) shares its list of the best books of 2014.
• “Your goal as a writer isn’t to get a book published. It’s to make yourself a writer.”
• e.E. Charlton-Trujillo on Fat Angie and censorship.
• JK Rowling on the guilt of killing off a random character.
• Love this response to a list of ‘top cauldrons’ in children’s list, and how it’s a reminder that E.L. Konigsburg is amazing.