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Teen Read Week: Clean Review

by paulahy

In honor of Teen Read Week, I’ll try and post a review of some of the Cybils noms I’m reading. Cybils YA noms have topped out at a little over 180 submissions. *swoons* Two weeks into it and being a first round judge is all that it’s cracked up to be. All YA, all the [ Read the full article… ]

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National Day On Writing 2011

by paulahy

There’s a day for everything. Literally. Some days it’s exhausting. I mean I can barely keep up with whether it’s Monday versus Wednesday…well actually that’s not true. Mondays vibe is way different. Still, from National Ice Cream day to Kiss a Pig in Purple, there seems to be a day to honor every possible human [ Read the full article… ]

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Leverage(ing) Teen Boy Readers

by paulahy

When I sold So Not The Drama in 2006, among YA’s hot topics were not enough books featuring African American teens outside of the historical fiction or inner city blues realm and never enough “boy” books. I’m glad to say that based on this year’s Cybil nominations things are (have?) taking a turn. Leverage, by [ Read the full article… ]

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Cybils YA Brown Books

by paulahy

I may have to hurt my library system because they don’t seem to have (m)any of the Cybils books by brown authors. I will not rant about it. I will not rant about it. I will not… Some of these books are new and I understand that procuring them isn’t as easy as me walking [ Read the full article… ]

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Madame Judge, If you Please…

by paulahy

Okay, by show of hands, how many bought my YA Bootcamp challenge post yesterday? Up until now, I couldn’t reveal that in fact I’ll be judging the YA category for the Cybil’s this year. I’m really excited about this. Not only is YA a competitive category, but I’ve always felt strongly that you have to [ Read the full article… ]

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Pee’s YA Bootcamp – Day 1

by paulahy

As the resident YA chick here (shout out to the resident YA Dude, Varian Johnson) I’m left to uphold the banner for all things YA. See, our compatriots here at BBS are legit children’s writers. They write for children. While V and I write for those elusive creatures who are not quite adults but lest [ Read the full article… ]

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Ya gotta Play to Win

by paulahy

Isn’t it funny how commercials will stick with you forever and ever? When I was a kid, the Maryland Lottery’s tagline was “ya gotta play to win,” and although they’ve had a million others since (and I even worked for the Ad company who managed their account some years ago) it’s that one that sticks [ Read the full article… ]

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The Beat Goes On With Added Harmony

by paulahy

Don’t tell anyone, but…you  may have noticed that we here at BBS didn’t announce that the 28 Days Later submission window was open.  It’s because the campaign is “under construction.” It will be alive and well in 2012, but how we’re selecting authors this year is different. So stay tuned. We’ll get you all up [ Read the full article… ]

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