Lots of fun links for the end of the week:

• Next week brings the Virginia Festival of the Book, which includes lots of wonderful readings (many free), including some for YA authors.
• Speaking of readings, Jay Asher talks about a particularly awkward one.
• Everybody loves writers.
• Dickensian London in pictures.
• There’s a lot of weird Hunger Games paraphernalia out there, guys.
• Speaking of The Hunger Games, Walt looks at the series and why your characters shouldn’t be victims.
• Are music and language natural to humans?
• Attention female screenwriters: Women in Film & Video/New England (WIFV/NE) is now accepting entries for the Tenth Annual Screenwriting Competition.
• Sometimes teens use Youtube for fantastic reasons–like helping Henryville High School students after losing their school in a tornado. So moving.