- The murky world of literary libel. (Glad I prefer making up characters…)
- I love a good dialect and geography piece.
- These writing tips from children's book editors at the Guardian contain some gems.
- An excellent post from Cassie about the love triangle in The Infernal Devices series and problematic reactions to girls and women characters. Snippet: "We’ve got to stop seeing women as rewards for men, as trophies to be handed to the best man, as important only in how they emotionally affect men, as nothing but useless clutter in a story that’s really about men, or that should be about men. We have to stop thinking of women as not deserving what they ‘get’—especially if what they get is to be in the center of the narrative, to have the special powers, to be the ones who live forever, to be the ones who love more than once."
- How the pilcrow (or paragraph symbol) came to be and then mostly died out.
- Ancient underwater Cypress forest found off the Alabama coast.
- Smart Bitches examines some weird dudes on romance covers and asks the question: why so weird, dudes on romance covers?
- Emma Straub and Laura Moriarty talk old Hollywood with Anne Helen Petersen.
- The definitive Sharknado interview.