Today's Recommended Reading:

* Jane Yolen discusses "Wrestling With Endings" over at the Writers at Work website. Writers and would-be-writers take note: there's some very good advice here.

* I discuss "The Mermaid Myth" over at Carolyn Turgeon's charming I am a Mermaid site. You'll find interviews with Jane Yolen, Alice Hoffman, and other good folk over there too.

* Katherine Langrish discusses "Nis folklore" and more on the whistle stops of her Blog Tour celebrating the publication of her book West of the Moon. (Three cheers for West of the Moon!) You can follow Katherine's adventures via her own blog, Seven Miles of Steel Thistles...and while you're there, catch up on any  of the excellent"Fairytale Reflections" that you might have missed.

* It's "March Madness" at the Interstitial Arts Foundation, which is when the wacky artists and scholars of the IAF (and I mean "wacky" in a good way) devote their blog to interviews of wildly unclassifiable artists in sundry fields. Curated by Erin Underwood and Mythic Delirium's Mike Allen, it's bound to be blast.

Art above: "Alarmed Mermaid" by the amazing Taiwan-born, Brooklyn-based artist Fay Ku. You can see more of her work on her website, and read an old-but-still-interesting interview here, discussing her inspiration, influences, and Living the Artist's Life.

Searching the beach for mermaids: a very wet dog and a very wet me, in my trusty Wellies.