As you've probably already noticed, our organizing staff–particularly our Social Media Guru, Gina Ruiz–has been hard at work trying to make the Cybils more active in the social media realm. Our Cybils Twitter and Facebook accounts have already enjoyed a major boost in the past few weeks, but you can help us continue to spread the word. If you're not …
Are Yooouuu Ready to Rrrrread?
Okay, that was a somewhat sorry attempt at a pro-wrestling-style preamble to get you ramped up for some exciting book-related events over the coming weeks–not the least of which is this week's Banned Books Week. So many of our fantabulous panelists, judges and organizers will be putting up posts (or already have) in conjunction with this important event that I …
A word for our sponsors
We have two ads on our blog now in our center column, which I'm not about to take for granted. I watched ad revenue dry up last year and never recuperate. One of the ads is from the independent publishing firm run by our own Sheila Ruth. She's rightly very proud of the "Ratha" series so please give her ad …
A word about judging
It's the 15th as I write this, the official deadline to have signed up to judge for this year's Cybils. Even as I type, emails are flying back and forth between organizers about who goes where. It literally came down to the wire. At last count, more than 190 people volunteered for roughly 110 spots (give or take a few, …
Welcome home, Gina!
Our social media guru, Gina Ruiz, says she's just moved back into her old blog, AmoXcalli, after a year-long absence. Please stop by and admire all the redecorating she's done, and to welcome her back to the Interwebs.
2010 Call for Judges
Yes, it's that time of year, when we ask kidlit bloggers around the world to stop what they're doing and join us. It's going to be another crazy contest year, so we're again reminding everyone: judging is loads of fun work. For which we pay you tons nothing. you should skip skim read every word of this post here. you'll …
Cybils 2010 Bling for Your Blog
We're back! And we're all very excited about this year's awards–the books…the bloggers…the fame and fortune…oh, wait. Maybe we do it for the love. And, okay, getting to read a ton of awesome books is a great side benefit. Whatever your reason for loving the Cybils, we want YOU to help us by showing your love. That's right, we've got …
Pardon our dust
Ah, we ordered this fancy new blog header and the delivery guy comes and installs it and it doesn't fit in the space! We ordered the wrong size, so we're sending it back and getting a new one. It was either that, or move to a larger blog in a nicer neighborhood, preferably one with a pool. Of course, once …
Reading and Shopping Are Both Fundamental
Why yes, this would be Carol Rasco of Reading is Fundamental with yours truly. I'm posting horribly late with this, but better late than never, as they say. (Hey, I was out of town for a while, okay?) So, you're thinking, what are you two lovely bloggers and book lovers doing in what looks like a department store? In fact, …
A Double Dose of Great News!
Kelly Fineman, our wondrous Poetry Organizer, has taken third place in the Writer's Digest Poetry Competition. Her poem is called "Inside the New Mall" and she's jumping up and down over at her blog. Go send her some virtual hugs. Congrats, Kelly! One more bit of news. I entered, ahem, a draft of Chapter 1 of my own unfinished novel …