- We've yet to give Damages a try (The Good Wife is just so, well, good), but this NYT piece makes it sound worth a DVR.
- Some great bits over at Larissa's World from the recent SCBWI Florida Conference, particularly from the brilliant Kathleen Duey.
- A.L. Kennedy on the trials of starting a new novel: "Falling asleep in my special typing chair after a couple of pages at the start of a book is, in fact, often an excellent sign. This is because writing prose is exhausting. Not in the way that coal mining is exhausting, or dragging the body of your frozen companion over an icy Alpine pass is exhausting, but it's demanding, nonetheless. By the end of the novel, things will be easier." Related: "How writing a novel is like running a marathon."
- Also at the Guardian is a piece on the current brand of bleak in post-apocalyptic fiction, which would have been much more interesting if it also engaged with the dystopian and post-apocalyptic stuff going on in YA.
- Some more excellent posts on the cover race and representation topic: N.K. Jemisin has a knock-out post on her problems with the concept of a boycott (read the comments too, and also a reminder to check out her first novel next month); Editorial Anonymous on the realities of expecting authors to comment when this stuff happens; the Book Smugglers announce a new "Cover Matters" regular feature; and, finally, check out Color Online & co.'s new Readers Against WhiteWashing campaign.
- There's a new blog offering writers advice on How To Kill Your Imaginary Friends in ways that don't defy medical logic.
- I want one of these to stand on my desk too.
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I want a dik-dik, too!
LK