guest blog winner and links

Congrats to last week's guest blogger winner, Melanie--and thanks again to all the guest bloggers and to those of you who talked me into twitter

The YA world is pretty quiet right now because of ALA, but I do have some links to share:

Keeping an Ideas File -- I don't actually keep a file--I have a couple of those expandable folder things where I put in bits of papers I've written things on, as well as whatever else has grabbed me enough to make me think "ooooh!" For instance, an article about fast