Apparently I’ve been hoarding lots of great links. Anything to make it through a Wednesday!

• An interesting article on how writing can be “taught” and fostered through writing programs.
• Author Patricia MacLachlan and illustrator Steven Kellogg are teaming up to write a book for children about Sandy Hook. Hopefully this will be a great resources for parents and educators to help kids deal with this terrifying situation.
• Ghost writing the Sweet Valley High books; writers gotta pay the bills.
• Wish you could have taken a class with your favorite writer? Scan the syllabi and pretend it’s the first day.
• Proofread like a pro.
• Brookline Booksmith has some great reading suggestions to get rid of the late-winter blahs.
• Somehow a literary Oxford tour seems incomplete without a reference to His Dark Materials, even if Lyra’s Oxford is in an alternate universe.
• On pen names and having a “writerly-sounding” name. I’m just glad that when you Google my name, I’m the one that comes up. (Me and cardigans, that is.)
• Attention current high school seniors! Enter Penguin’s essay contest and win money for college.
• Another awesome bookish March madness competition–Paper Lantern Lit’s Swoon Madness!
• On Gilmore Girls, pop culture and high art existed side-by-side for the main characters. Which is pretty much how it is in real life.
• Shannon Hale on girl characters and why they don’t have to just be love interests.
• VIDA compares the last three years of female writer representation in major journals and newspapers. Spoiler alert: it ain’t good.
• Cool recap of a readers advisory training for librarians working with children and teens
• A behind-the-scenes look at the book acquisitions process

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