*I thought since this lj community loves books this would be a great link to post:

http://www.wegivebooks.org/pages/how-it-works

How it works:

We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online.

Simply choose the charity you want to read ( Read more... )

As I've blog surfed my holidays away, I wanted to share a few links to some issues surrounding boys, girls and books:

1. Boy Books and Girl Books -  An author discusses how urban fantasy is often mistakened as 'girl' books.

2. Boys and Girls - Another author discusses whether the majority of girls like tough heroines as much as boys (apparently) do. ( Read more... )

To win an advanced reading copy of Moulton's Angelfire:

http://courtney-allison.blogspot.com/2010/06/angelfire-cover-and-arcs-plus-contest.html

Back to writing related stuff:

Scattered words I pick up like shards of glass, fashioned to shine or cut with a rough edge.
Look through with a scatter shot mind, cutting deeper.

Sometimes, when I'm ( Read more... )