Man, I am so behind on posting! Here are all the links I’ve been hoarding:

• At Ploughshares, I wrote about authors of literary fiction who have also written YA–with great success.
• I also shared my bookshelf confessions with the delightful Mackenzi Lee.
• London is for book lovers.
• Lots of great YA/children’s characters on this list of best parents in literature.
• Beautiful article by Gayle Forman about loss and how it resulted in her If I Stay.
• Classic YA novels that should be made into movies.
• What are your most memorable reads from school?
• Your therapist character shouldn’t suck.
• This semester: YA on the syllabus.
• Short stories for your 20s.
• Middle grade and young adult: not the same.
• Because no one can see the fancy cover of the hyper-literary book you’re reading on an e-reader.
• Growing up reading CS Lewis, and my new favorite Lewis story.
• A call for science fiction that uses technology for inspiration, for fear.
• If you can’t go on vacation this summer, some summer reading travels.
• I want to go to there.
• Cool interview with some cool librarians.
• Excellent post on sex in YA and what readers want from their reading experience.
• 10 things you don’t need to be a writer.
• YA authors play Sorting Hat for their characters.