The 2010 Cybils finalists will be posted at 5 a.m. Mountain Time tomorrow. No special reason, except to get you out of bed early on New Year's Day. Muahahaha. -Anne Levy, Evil Cybils Admin.

Some wonderful news of holiday giving from our Social Media Guru Gina Ruiz: LATISM – Latinos in Social Media – is adopting a library, and they want your help in choosing a worthy recipient for their very first Virtual Book Drive. They've organized the book drive as a way for their members and supporters to unite nationally and work toward …

If you've never heard of the Blog Blast Tours–Summer and Winter–you're missing out! It started in summer of 2007, organized by Colleen Mondor at Chasing Ray, and has been going strong twice a year ever since. The Blog Blast Tours are a semi-annual week of in-depth interviews with authors and illustrators, with a particular focus on children's and YA authors. …

Y'all are probably old hands at this, but don't forget that when you click on the Amazon links in the Cybils site, ANY shopping you proceed to do on Amazon gives a teeny-tiny commission to the Cybils–or a big commission, if you decide to buy something major, like a big-screen TV or one of those nifty Brewbot things. You'll be …

Thanks to Tracy Grand at JacketFlap, our new Cybils widget is here! Isn’t it purty? (I’ll pause a moment so you can nod enthusiastically.) Just like in past years, it shows off a different nominated title whenever you refresh the page, and you can even customize it to show just your favorite genres.  It comes already loaded with our Amazon …

Today we’d like to send a thank-you out to Penguin Canada, who not only blogged about their two Cybils nominees (scroll down about a fourth of the way down the page for the entry) on their Today at Penguin page, but also added the Cybils nomination to the individual book pages for Camp X: Trouble In Paradise (an MG Fiction …

It seems I made a dreadful mistake on this post here. The contest I mention is decidedly NOT free to enter — it's $15. Here's their fine print. It was free when I entered last year. I'm a little upset about this, as I normally never promote contests with fees. Not that they're bad — some, like those at Glimmer …

Liz Burns, formal Cybil-ite and School Library Journal blogger at A Chair, a Fireplace, and a Tea Cozy, gave the Cybils an awesome plug in her official SLJ overview of the Kidlitosphere Conference in Minneapolis this past weekend. KidLitCon 2010 was a blast–I can vouch for that personally–and Liz and I both participated in a panel on Cybils and the …

Hey folks, just a quick public service announcement.  The same contest that launched me on the path to fame and fortune has started up again.  The YA Novel Discovery Contest gets underway November 1st.  It's free to enter, and the five finalists win a consult with literary agent Regina Brooks. Further details, plus my blithering, overly long testimonial, here.  –Anne …

We have 1,289 nominated books this year. More than half — 59% — have been read by at least one panelist so far. About a third have been read by two or more panelists. Way to go, panelists! –Anne Levy, Cybils admin.