Lots of links I’ve been saving:

• Love for Prufrock.
• The stats on how writers found their agents.
• And stats on how many books came before the debut.
• Let’s stop perpetuating these reading myths.
• Big change for children’s books on the NY Times Bestseller lists.
• Why The ____’s Daughter/Wife title convention is so common.
• Female sci-fi writers to add to your reading list.
• And some diverse YA sci-fi, fantasy, and horror.
• Also books that deal with Muslim life.
• Are you a logophile?
• Please tell me the I Want My Hat Back musical will be just as darkly funny as the book.
• Making fictional maps.
• High school students are most likely form friendships in their classes.
• Anyone want to run a bookstore in Scotland with me?
• You might recognize my library antics in this list of alternate places to study around UVA.
• Elizabeth Gilbert’s advice for success: bring it, every time.
• The ups and downs of having a debut book.
• Girls lead the language revolution.
• A book that can literally save your life.
• Excellent way to reframe ‘diversity’ panels at conferences.
• How to donate books to prisons.
• Because Hogwarts isn’t the only magic school.
• Hashtags for writers, readers, and bookish people.
• How to write a novel and keep your day job.
• Advice for struggling writers from the delightful Jenny Martin.
• I need to subscribe to most of these teen lit podcasts.
• “Middle grade books are the instruction manuals that show us how to build our own inner landscapes. When we were kids they taught us how to shape, for the very first time, the spaces that were ours, and only ours.”