Thanksgiving, Lawrence Schimel and the Cybils

To all you fellow Canucks out there: I hope you're having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend! I'm getting together with Allison and Jodi today to celebrate their recent birthdays. Thanks to all those who dropped by the virtual birthday party! Hey, even my sister came by and she hardly EVER posts online. :-)



For you writers out there (or anyone who knows a writer), I have a new post in Inkygirl: Interview: Lawrence Schimel and his Fairy Tales For Writers. I recently received a review copy of Fairy Tales For Writers and loved it. See my interview for more info.

Lawrence has published over 80 books (yes, I said 80) and lives in Madrid, Spain. I've seen his Livejournal nickname around but never actually clued into the fact that he had such a fascinating background until I ran into him on Facebook.

Which prompts me to post a survey for those on Livejournal: what percentage of your "Friends" list are people you actually know? I'm very bad with LJ nicknames and tend not to be able to connect actual people or names with LJ ids. I'll usually only clue in during a face-to-face conversation at which point I slap my head and say, "Oh, so YOU'RE (insert obscure nickname here) on LJ! I had no idea!"



For those of you out there who (like me) love kids' lit: The Cybils 2007 is now accepting nominations. The Cybils: Children's and Young Adult Bloggers' Literary Awards - you can nominate books in eight categories, from picture books up to young adult fiction, as long as the book was first published in 2007 in English (bilingual books are okay too). Once nominations close on Nov. 21, the books go through two rounds of judging, first to select the finalists and then the winners, to be announced on Valentine's Day 2008.

To nominate, go to the appropriate category and post the title and author of the book you'd like to nominate.

Categories:

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Fiction Picture Books

Graphic Novels

Middle Grade Fiction

Non-Fiction: Middle Grade and Young Adult

Non-Fiction Picture Books

Poetry

Young Adult Fiction

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