Linkage.

•  Lois Lowry on The Yearling.  I don't think I can read that one.  Ever. 

•  "Ender's headed off to battle school."  Click down to The Space Out for the whole song. 

•  Books Cherie Priest wrote before getting published:

Reign of the Desert Snow. Cheesy enough title for you? Well, in my defense I was in seventh grade when I wrote this one. It was about 200 pages long, and it was about me and my cousins helping a mafia don’s daughter escape from the clutches of a drug dealer inside the Great Pyramid at Giza. Then one day the disc upon which this MASTERPIECE was saved … died. I lost the whole thing. At the time, I was inconsolable. In retrospect, I am overjoyed.

•  Oh, look.  A bunch of books I've been meaning to read but still haven't gotten around to...  yep, the Carnegie shortlist has been announced.  (Via Kelly.) 

•  New blog alert:  Fusion Stories.  (via Finding Wonderland)

•  The Unfeasibly Tall Greek Billionaire’s Blackmailed Martyr-Complex Secretary Mistress Bride.  "To her consternation, her nipples hardened..."

More later, maybe.