Tonight, May 10 at the YA Authors Cafe – Boys & Girls, Men & Women, Authors & Heroes: how gender affects how we write, who we write for, and what happens next. Cynthia Leitich Smith explores gender writing issues with panelists Nancy Werlin, D.L. Garfinkle, and Brian Yansky.

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Cynsational Links

A Round-Up of Some of the Season’s Best Books for Boys by Elizabeth Ward from The Washington Post. (Children’s and YA).

Author Greg Leitich Smith blogs about channeling your inner child.

Check out the lovely Laurie Halse Anderson’s May 7 LJ entry about her writing group. Very interesting! I’m also proud to be included among her buddies.