Thoughts and discussions.

On blogging
- *NEW* "Likable" main characters.
- *NEW* Why do people plagiarize?
- The art of critical reviewing.
- Roland Barthes' "The death of the author" and authors commenting on reviews
- How I write a review
- Bloggers and publishers, review copies and entitlement
- On rereads
- On not feeling guilty about brain candy
- Love triangles and DNF books
- My unofficial rules for new bloggers
- What to do with extra books
- Behavior at BookExpo America
- Using ratings
- DNF books
- ARCs on eBay

On controversies
- Adding books to the school curriculum: yay or nay?
- Should books be labeled? What do labels do?
-  Katherine on publishing fanfiction
- The week of mental illness
- Bootlegging books, the digital age and why I don't know where I stand
- The NPR Top 100 YA books
- Blackface in book trailers
- Adding sex scenes into classic novels
- Katherine on Fifty Shades of Grey
- Edward Cullen, romance and fiction affecting reality
- A letter to parents: teens who read romance novels
- 'Clean' YA
- YA vs. non-YA
- Articles (or lack thereof) on YA lit
- WSJ, YA Saves and YA lit
- James Frey's fiction factory
- E-books vs. books
- SPEAK up.
- Zach on Twilight
- On banned books

On gender, sex and sexuality.
- Sex, explicit sex and young adult novels
- The Museum of Sex & YA lit
- Adding sex scenes into classic novels
- Leanna Renee Hieber on feminism and the Victorian age
- Why a heroine doesn't always need romance
- Heroines and the Mary Sue trope
- On slut-shaming.
- A letter to parents: teens who read romance novels
- Bad morals, dumb girls and rape culture
- SPEAK up.

On marketing books (covers, book trailers, etc.)
- *NEW* More on new adult.
- Why changing of names and covers isn't a bad thing
- Dead girls in dresses and why I don't like them.
- What is new adult?
- Retellings vs. fanfiction
- YA stigma and shame, what we're buying and why I want to go into the industry
- "New adult" vs. "young adult"
- On the lack of non-white covers and characters
- On why covers are important
- On marketing with the idea of other books
- Cassandra Yorgey on promo products
- Blackface in book trailers
- The Immortal Rules cover (follow-up)
- What makes a good book trailer
- On kissy-face covers
- Beauty stereotypes and cover design
- Twilight-ization of covers

On writing
-*NEW* Alpha-male syndrome & YA lit.
- *NEW* Love triangles and outer v. inner turmoil
- Romance, love stories and the lack of mutual exclusivity.
- On gendered insults and how it reflects on their characters. (tw: strong language)
- What makes me pick up a book
- Tips for writing brilliant characters (guest post at Adventures in YA & Children's Publishing)
- The importance of clothing in novels
- Why a heroine doesn't always need romance
- Heroines and the Mary Sue trope
- Love triangles and DNF books
- Jennifer Estep on memorable heroines
- How to define YA lit
- Love triangles
- College in YA lit
- Mixing paranormal and classics
- Annoying character tropes

Other fun stuff
- My hatred of zombies
- On Mockingjay
- Merchandise for the bibliophile
- Television recommendations (2)
- Why authors should watch Avatar and Fullmetal Alchemist
- What are the essentials of YA?
- Loving your library
- Disney princesses
- On dystopians
- Reading Shakespeare

Top Ten Tuesday
- *NEW* Words to make me pick up a book.
- *NEW* Favorite romances
- Books I wouldn't mind Santa bringing me
- Kick-ass heroines
- That made me think
- Female book characters
- Male book characters
- Most vivid settings
- Books that I bought because of covers
- Favorite covers
- Books I'd give a theme song
- Authors I wish would write another book
- That have been on my shelf but I haven't read

*NEW* Blog series: Blogging In Real Life
- Introduction & resume.
- Julie & studying publishing.
- Kelly & helping your local library.
- Katie & coding / design
- Pam on becoming a literary agent.
- Coding and layout.
- Ksenia on getting your foot in the door.

Blog series: Characterize
- Introduction
- Sean Ferrell on Neville Longbottom
- Nova Ren Suma on writing Ruby
- Sara from the Page Sage on likable protagonists.
- Julie Kagawa on writing strong characters.
- Donna from Bites on strong character arcs.
- Siobhan Vivian on strong female characters.
- Janice from Janicu Reads on emotionally strong characters.
- Jim Dean from YA Yeah Yeah on the Monstrumologist
- Nicole (me!) on the imaginary 'weak' female character
- Conclusion.

Blog series: Young Adult Literature - The Class
- Syllabus
- Day 1: YA lit as a genre
- Day 2: YA lit as a genre
- Day 3: The history of YA lit
- Day 4: Seventeenth Summer
- Day 5: Catcher in the Rye
- Day 6: Catcher in the Rye
- Day 7: The Outsiders
- Day 8: The Outsiders
- Day 9: Go Ask Alice
- Day 10: The Chocolate War
- Day 11: on writing papers
- Day 12: Speak
- Day 13: Speak
- Day 14: Monster
- Day 15: Skellig
- Day 16: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Day 17: The Hunger Games
- Day 18: 'Dark' literature and YA lit