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My reading challenge spreadsheet in action.

The Booktrust has put together a list of the 100 Best Books for Children up to the age of 14. Don’t forget to vote for your favourites!

If you’re in the mood for a shorter list, check out 5 Signs You Are Reading Too Much YA from Book Riot. I exhibit none of these symptoms. Must read more YA 😉

I loved this post about Dream UKYA Collaborations at YA Yeah Yeah.

6 Tricks To Stay Healthy While Sitting + Staring At Screens All Day – because I’d like to be able to type when I’m 90, wouldn’t you? Yes, by then typing might be a completely obselete method of inputing data, but it would be nice to have a functioning back and flexible arms and fingers regardless.

If you are a writer in or near London you must check out the Spread the Word Autumn 2013 events programme. There are some really interesting workshops available this season, and I am looking forward to the debate about the new gatekeepers in fiction publishing in December.

How well do you market yourself or your blog? Marketing isn’t my number one priority at the moment when it comes to my blog, because I’m focusing on establishing a regular posting schedule. However, it is still something that I think about often. I would love to have more commenters and for my posts to lead to proper discussions, and I know that I will have to have a proper marketing plan in order to achieve this goal.

I love reading all sorts of bookish memes, even though I only currently participate in Top Ten Tuesday, so I was thrilled to see The Master List of Book Blogging Memes at Girlxoxo.

What posts have you enjoyed recently?

It’s a short one today as I’ve been away and been ill, and I’m about to go out!

SisterSpooky‘s Blogger Thoughts: Swearing in YA explores an issue that I’ve been thinking about over the last few days. On Friday I finished reading Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, which has a lot of swearing in it. The f word appears a lot, sometimes several times a page, and I thought it was perfectly normal, but I’ve read several reviews since by people who find it really offensive. Personally, if I was offended by swearing, I’d give it a one line mention in my review. But it’s almost all these reviewers talk about! They don’t write about the characters or the plot, just the swearing, and I find that unfair and really quite bizarre. At the same time, when I’m writing, though I’ll put in the odd swear word where it seems natural, I’m afraid of putting too many in, in case I’ll be asked to remove them all later!

Another thought-provoking post is Relationship History and what I’d like to see more of in YA… at Fluttering Butterflies. It would be great to see more characters dealing with breakups, or long periods of being single. All the talk of soulmates and destiny makes me more than a little uncomfortable.

A list of time-travelling teen fiction, at Stacked (via @strangechemistry).

How
To Rekindle The Flame When The Blogging Honeymoon Is Over! – See more
at:
http://www.perpetualpageturner.com/2013/02/how-to-rekindle-the-flame-when-the-blogging-honeymoon-is-over.html#sthash.dTQpnTsp.dpuf

How To Rekindle The Flame When The Blogging Honeymoon Is Over! is another great post, with advice for getting over a blogging slump.

The Broke and the Bookish ask: If you had to be a book villain, which one would you choose to be and why?

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