{"id":1407,"date":"2010-06-08T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:55","slug":"food-for-thought-and-free-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought and Free Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> not giving away free books, although I probably should purge my done-reading piles sometime soon. It&#8217;s actually a brand-new blog devoted entirely to middle-grade books and authors, and to celebrate their launch, they&#8217;re having a fabulous giveaway&#8211;so go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fromthemixedupfiles.com\/\">From the mixed-up files<\/a> and enter to win NINE middle-grade books. You have until June 22nd!<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to the food for thought. Just in case you were sick and tired of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2255911\/entry\/2255912\/\">next big vampire thang<\/a>, done with dystopia and sick of steampunk, and wondering what the next hot YA theme might turn out to be, fret no more&#8211;io9 asks the critical question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5555997\/\">What comes next after steampunk and zombies?<\/a>&#8221; (I personally am unlikely to get sick of steampunk or dystopian books&#8211;I guess we all have our guilty pleasures&#8211;but vampires? Zombies? Meh.)<\/p>\n<p>On a different topic, but still food for thought for us writers, is a series of blog posts to be posted this week on <i>Ash<\/i> author Malinda Lo&#8217;s site covering the topic of how to avoid LGBTQ stereotypes in YA fiction. While today&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malindalo.com\/2010\/06\/avoiding-lgbtq-stereotypes-in-ya-fiction-part-1-major-lgbtq-stereotypes\/\">Major LGBTQ Stereotypes<\/a> didn&#8217;t hold many surprises for me, I&#8217;m definitely interested in the rest of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not giving away free books, although I probably should purge my done-reading piles sometime soon. It&#8217;s actually a brand-new blog devoted entirely&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,10,73],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-views","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6116,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}