Yes, it’s a crazy mixed-up world and I’m doing links today instead of Thursday, because my brain is still sort of clogged up with breakfast casseroles and peanut butter cups so I need to save my creative writing for the book. And so:

- Ally Carter’s Eleven Myths about the Publishing Industry post is well  worth reading. I especially concur with numbers 1, 3, 5 and 10.

- Lara Zeises goes public with her weight-loss surgery experience after reaching a significant milestone. I am impressed – it’s really hard to talk about weight stuff in public, but – as is the case with a lot of personal topics – sometimes the thought that you might help someone else overrides the fear of self-exposure. Thanks for sharing this, Lara!

- LK Madigan’s 2008 roundup of writing advice in 5 words or less! 

- Sara Ryan’s take on the writing life. Or at least parts of it. Such as: “as a writer, you spend a lot of time in your own head, which is not always a pleasant locale.” Ooohyeah.

- The topic at the Teen Fiction Cafe this week is movies. I’ll be adding a post sometime, myself. I watched/saw a bunch of movies last week so I could write about those. Or maybe I ‘ll just ponder Christopher Plummer’s hotness, which was a burning topic on Twitter during last night’s airing of The Sound of Music.