Lots of good links to start your week:

• I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Tumblr is awesome for writers.
• I’m all for ‘they’ as a singular pronoun.
• Survey says authors like their publishers, wish they got more marketing.
• So you want to be a writer...
• As if I didn’t already love London.
• Security, fear, and a passage cut from A Wrinkle in Time.
• These bookmarks are way cuter than the library receipts I usually end up using.
• This year’s 2015 Teens’ Top Ten Nominees from ALA include ’14 debut author favorites Lies We Tell Ourselves and Midnight Thief.
• Looking back on the illustrations of Margaret Bloy Graham.
• A call for diverse children’s books on the international scale.
• YA characters who love poetry.
• “Libraries are the public institutions that exist to nurture cultural literacy, lifelong learning, and bringing its community together.” The Ferguson Library Director on the necessity of libraries in their communities.
• Allusions to Milton and other ways to win a Pulitzer.
• The Queer Young Adult Literature Conference sounds awesome.
• And some under-the-radar LGBTQ YA reads.
• Yes, adults can enjoy YA novels.
• A conversation about writing and motherhood.
• The Library of Congress is sharing a giant poetry reading archive.
• Bringing books to incarcerated mothers and their babies.
• I’m subscribing to all of these bookish podcasts.