Lots of links I’ve been saving:

• Query critiques, signed books, Skype visits and more for Hurricane Harvey relief.
• An awesome post on Mary Sues and the pressure we put on female characters.
• The witty, wise, and whimsical E.B. White.
• On addiction and library services.
• As if Porter Square Books wasn’t already awesome enough, now they’re inviting you to a bookstore sleepover.
• A real plaque for a fictional person.
• Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these librarians from their patrons.
• How Harry Potter changed publishing.
• Revising the summer reading list.
• And speaking of summer reading lists, check out Lin-Manuel Miranda’s.
• Cultural appropriation is never appropriate.
• The miraculous act of reading.
• Take a literary road trip across the United States.
• Getting objective and creative with your revision.
• From one of my dearest friends, thoughts on growing up with Harry Potter.
• Twenty-five easy steps to be a contemporary writer.
• Margaret Atwood and Junot Diaz on dystopian societies and the contemporary landscape.
• Reason #482 why you should adopt a pet: to name it something inspired from literature.
• Love and lemonade.
• The calendar of book launch marketing.