Happy Monday! We start your week off with a cool selection of posts from the Kidlitosphere.
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Some mid-week goodness for you, and a very eclectic bunch of blog posts indeed.
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Happy December!
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It’s Wednesday and time for more great blog posts!
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It’s Tuesday, and time for another great batch of blog posts from the world of children’s books!
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Kidlit Central News: Meet and Greet Monday: Laura Manivong
I’m Here. I’m Queer. What the Hell Do I read? What Do You Do When You Don’t See Things The Way Your Parents Do?
Bookie Woogie: Review #3: “Little Hoot” and “Little Pea”
Chasing Ray: Winter Blog Blast Tour Schedule
A Fuse #8 Production: WBBT Interview – Louis Sachar!
Happy Monday, everyone. We’re back at you with four great posts today — and the video quality is officially new and improved!
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Direct Links to posts:
Editorial Anonymous: How Many Legs in “Buffalo”?
Patrick Rothfuss: Heifer Fundraiser: More Prizes, More Questions
Suzanne Young: How to Impress a Girl
Just One More Book: A Roving Rover: Owney the Mail-Pouch Pooch
Back again with a fresh set of posts. And we have some history — our very first repeat blog! Yes, wow-Women on Writing is just that good. 
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Nominations for the third annual Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards (the Cybils) will be open Wednesday, October 1st through Wednesday, October 15th. The goal of the Cybils team (some 100 bloggers) is to highlight books that are high in both literary quality and kid appeal.
This year, awards will be given in nine categories (Easy Readers, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fiction Picture Books, Graphic Novels, Middle Grade Novels, Non-Fiction Middle Grade/Young Adult Books, Non-Fiction Picture Books, Poetry, Young Adult Novels). Anyone can nominate books in these categories (one nomination per person per category). Nominated titles must be published between January 1st and October 15th of this year, and the books must be in English (or bilingual, where one of the languages is English). To nominate titles, visit the Cybils blog (http://www.cybils.com/) between October 1st and 15th.
Between October 16th and January 1st, Cybils panelists (children’s and young adult bloggers) will winnow the nominations down to a 5-7 book short list for each category. A second set of panelists will then select the winning titles for the different categories. The winners will be announced on February 14th, 2009.
One of my great realizations from last weekend’s Kidlitosphere 2008 conference was that the future belongs to those who band together. There’s simply too much clutter and background noise for individual authors to make a big splash on their own. We need to collaborate.
Enter the group blog.
Writers, illustrators, agents, booksellers, librarians, readers — anyone with an interest in children’s literature — are working together to present multi-author blogs that are gathering plenty of attention. These blogs work because they multiply the promotional power of having multiple authors, reduce the workload for each author and do better at attracting readers who are seeking a “big picture” approach about a particular topic.
You can group together with other bloggers to develop a group blog based around genre of books you write, where you live, where you went to school, common subject matter – or just about anything else.
Here are a few of the top group blogs in kidslit to get your creative juices flowing:
PS: Wanna collaborate on a group blog? We’re all ears. Drop us an e-mail at mail@write4kids.com
Whoa, this is cool. Jott.com is a free service that does lots of things, but the most immediately impressive is its voice to e-mail feature.
Here’s how it works:
1. Set up a Jott account by registering your e-mail and your phone number.
2. Program Jott’s toll-free number into your phone contacts.
3. Whenever you want, call the toll-free number and leave yourself a message.
4. The message is transcribed and e-mailed to you, along with a link to the actual audio.
The possibilities are numerous.
You’re in the library or the bookstore and you come across some titles you’ll want to study later. Jott yourself all the info and it will be waiting for you in your inbox.
You’re at a conference looking for subjects to interview for your blog when you meet a famous author. Call Jott and conduct the interview using the phone as a “microphone”. The entire interview will be transcribed and sent to you along with the audio.
Needless to say, there are hundreds more uses, and Jott has a lot more to offer, including the ability to send RSS feeds to your phone. A killer resource!
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