A few of good links for today:

• The amazing Christa Desir on Other Broken Things, advice for writers, and books that don’t work.
• Making a living as a writer is so rare.
• Not so rare? Getting stabbed in Shakespeare.
• Get these awesome and diverse 2016 debut authors on your pre-order list.
• Great interview with Gene Luen Yang, our new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.
• The hard truths about breaking into/staying in publishing.
• Creative epiphanies from successful people.
• Loved Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert.
• 90% of what I want to do on vacation is read.
• Awesome list of feminist heroes in (largely children’s/YA) fiction.
• As always, libraries are so, so necessary.