blackholly on the narrative function of werewolves.
yanewyork says some balanced and reasonable things about the NYTimes article on being a YA author, and comes around to the real point–that teens are getting good books.
In the course of research I stumbled upon this pair of arctic fox articles: one about a stowaway, the other about an escapee.
Random House’s new SF and fantasy focused Suvudu blog.
papersky over at Tor’s new blog on the non-problem of the singularity.
psamphire on writing characters, not types of characters.
Via halseanderson, J.L. Bell of Boston 1775″ takes a look at the historical notion that 1777 was the “year of the gallows.” (Part 1 and Part 2.) A good look at why primary sources matter, and at why we need to be careful accepting any received historical wisdom.