Links

General

KidLit.com
Kidlerati
New York Times Paper Cuts
Nathan Bransford
Pub(lishing) Crawl

Middle Grade

From the Mixed Up Files
Middle Grade Mafia
Middle Grade Mania
Middle Grade Mayhem
Middle Grade Minded
Middle Grade Ninja
Middle Grade Strikes Back

Young Adult

Adventures in YA Publishing
Teen Reads
YA Book Blog Directory
YA Buccaneers
YA Highway

Writing Resources

AutoCrit Editing Wizard
Brenda Drake’s Pitch Wars
Daily Dahlia
Innovative ways to help other writers (and help yourself, too) at The Writer (article by Kerrie Flanagan)
Jane Friedman
Janet Reid’s Query Shark
Literary Rambles
Miss Snark’s First Victim
NaNoWriMo
Seventh Sanctum Name Generator
Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators blog
Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators
There Are No Rules (Blog by Writers Digest Editors)
Write On Con

Diversity resources

American Indians in Children’s Literature
CBC Diversity
Disability in Kidlit
DiversifYA
Diversity in YA
Gay YA
I’m here, I’m queer, what the hell do I read?
Latin@s in Kidlit
Minorities in Publishing podcast
The Brown Bookshelf
We Need Diverse Books

Other Debut Groups

The Novel Nineteens
The Electric Eighteens
The Swanky Seventeens
Sixteen to Read
The Class of 2k16
Waiting on 2016
The 2016 Carnival
On the Scene in 2016 (picture book debuts)
The Class of 2k15
The Fearless Fifteeners
The Freshman Fifteens
One Four Kid Lit
The Lucky Thirteens
The Apocalypsies