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1. Day 3: Up Close and Online with Daphene Grab

One of the many awesome things about getting my book published has been discovering the on-line kidlit community. I think a lot of people know about this community before selling their first book but I lack internet savvy and so it was a wonderful surprise for me. My first discovery was the wonderful Fuse#8 , which is the perfect starting point since she is the center of everything kidlit. Her blog lead me to favorites like Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Bookshelves of Doom, as well as clueing me in to some great new books.

MySpace lead me to some great YA review blogs, like BookChic, And Another Book Read and the Compulsive Reader. It also lead me to a bunch of author sites. I follow a lot of author blogs now but my favorites are Meg Cabot’s and The Disco Mermaids. I also love blogs of people breaking into the business, like the wonderful Debbi Michiko Florence and Hip Writer Mama.

For years I was embarrassed to be an adult who read kid books. I thought I was the only one and I’d hide the covers of my books when I read on the subway, stuffing my latest YA favorite into my backpack so fast that no one could see that the thirty-something woman across the aisle was reading a book for teens. But now I’m part of this incredible community that loves kid books as much as I do. I know there are thousands of us around the country, reading and loving our teen and MG books. I now display my books with pride, and smile when I see that people are reading over my shoulder. Who wouldn’t want to read over my shoulder when I’m in the middle of BRALESS IN WONDERLAND or the latest Sarah Dessen?!

What I love the most about all these sites is how warm and open people are. This business could be so competitive and mean but instead it’s a group of people bound together by a love of kidlit, who are thrilled to discover another new book by another new author. Which is pretty much a dream come true for this new author!

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2. We Have a Winner (Kill This Poem Contest)


We have a winner. Teenbookreview killed the poem with the final line, “Alone and buried in the snow.” I’ll be sending her the grand prize very shortly.

Update: it looks like I declared a winner a tad too early (I was having trouble converting from Greenwich time). Charlotte swooped in like a ninja at the last minute with a final line. The solution: Charlotte and Teenbookreview will each receive a copy of the book.

Here is the collaborative poem:

Kill This Poem

The name of this poem is its fate.
How quickly will it meet its death
Pushing forward to the end date
And quickly losing all its breath

It sheds its words onto the ground
Discarded there to rot
And ever more shall we discern
That our words are worth naught

But is the poem an empty shell?
Or does it have deep meaning that is sought?
My words may ring the final bell
Then deathly silence is their lot.

Alone and buried in the snow
The pages, blank, tell tales of woe.

And a big thank you to all the runner-up poets:

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3. Kill This Poem


Ok, so I don’t have many advanced reading copies of my book. And I want to contribute a post for Poetry Friday. So I thought to myself, “Self: mash it up,” and the result is: Kill This Poem.

I will post the first line of a collaborative poem, and the person who adds the final line in the comments “kills” the poem. And wins a signed copy of Kaimira: The Sky Village.

A line is judged as “final” when 48 hours passes without anyone else adding a new line.

I’m going to start out with the assumption of ABAB CDCD EFEF and so on, but breaking out of that won’t disqualify anyone.

This should go pretty quickly, because I don’t have a large readership.

Kill This Poem

The name of this poem is its fate.

So, who is the brave soul willing to add the second line?   Thanks, Kelly!

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