• Book Buying, Indie Bookstores, Amazon, and Double Standards
• Pioneer Girl release date moved back
• The Playboy Sheikh’s Virgin Harlequin Reader (via)
• I Got Out of Pocket
• The Good, Racist People
• Revising “Weaving Dreams” Mary Robinette Kowal on how she inadvertently wrote–and published–a racist and colonialist story and what she did to try to fix it. And pulled from the comments is this: Transracial Writing for the Sincere by Nisi Shawl and everyone needs to go read this essay RIGHT NOW.  The rest of linkspam will wait.
• Always Should Be Something You Really Love Breaks down why the idea of “boy” books and “girl” books is nonsense. BECAUSE IT IS.
• On Autism Spectrum Conditions and Anti-Harassment
• John Scalzi on the boilerplate contracts being offered by Random House’s new Hydra and Alibi imprints. I most sincerely hope that my friends who are with their Loveswept imprint have better contracts than this.
• UNC, the Vatican and Sovereign Grace Ministries: When PR trumps concern for victims
• Liz at Something More on Fantasy, Heroism, Flaws: The Curse of Chalion Lots of great stuff here–I especially like Merrian’s comment about Cazaril becoming his integrated self in a women’s space.
• A Conversation Doesn’t End When You Bow Out
• LGBTQ Characters: If They’re in My Life They Should Be in the Fiction I Read
• There have been two new installments of Fran Wilde’s ever-interesting Cooking the Books: Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Saladin Ahmed.

I was given a tip to a delightful little piece of fan fiction that does an incredible job of uniting mathematics with relationship angst in a way I didn’t think was possible but instead of linking it, I’m just going to quote my favorite bit from it and y’all can do the rest: “He didn’t understand the thrill of being a polymath, the new worlds that were opening up to me.”