Link Salad

Smart things via Beth Hanggeli: Toni McGee Causey on why comfort reading really matters. Go read this at once. It's very powerful and exactly right. If anyone ever clobbers you over happy endings send them to this post.

Interesting things via Bear: Ozarque on artist spaces.*

Terrifying Worrisome things (for writers) via Agent Kristin/pubrants and Publishers Weekly–Houghton Mifflin Harcourt temporarily suspending acquisitions.

*Bear addressed this a bit as well in her link. And I thought it worth addressing too. My own studio is a huge screen porch in summer and our front room in winter. Hopefully the latter will soon be abandoned in favor of a solar where my old screen office used to sit (2nd floor back–I'm now writing on the front porch in the summer) but that depends on royalties and book sales so it could be another year or three depending.