Some interesting links:
Why I review everything I read by Teresa Preston at Book Riot.
SEXtember: What reading romance taught me about sex by Natalie Ng at meld magazine.
An interesting interview with Jill Shalvis at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books. It’s fascinating to see how many writers assume it’s only them that write messy drafts while other writers must be writing such clean drafts.
Pro-”Gay For You” Arguments In The Romance Genre (And Why They’re All Still Bi/Pan Erasure) by Jenny Trout.
5 Years a Novelist: A Retrospective on the Writing Life by Kameron Hurley.
An awesome article in The New Yorker about Ursula Le Guin.
An interview at The Design Files with Penguin book designer Allison Colpoys.
Working with Time I Actually Have, Not the Time I’d Like To Have by Peter M. Ball.
On the horror genre: Guest Post: “New Voices” by Mark Morris at Civilian Reader; The Hidden Horrors of Craig Davidson by Tobias Carroll at Electric Lit; and Interview with Victor LaValle by Maurice Broaddus at Nightmare Magazine.
Margaret Atwood: ‘All dystopias are telling you is to make sure you’ve got a lot of canned goods and a gun’ by Charlotte Higgins at The Guardian.
On editing: An intimate relationship: editors and writers at the Radio National archives of The Book Show (it’s from 2008 but it’s still interesting) and What is structural editing (from 2007); Teaching Stuff: Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic by Richard Chwedyk at the SFWA blog.
Why I Don’t Want to Be a Queer Book Detective Anymore by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian.
Luna Harlow's house of pulp 