{"id":1243,"date":"2011-04-07T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:57","slug":"thursday-bits-are-you-ready-to-rockthe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Bits: Are You Ready to Rock&#8230;the Drop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, Teen Literature Day is coming up on April 14th, and this year the Readergirlz are teaming up with the folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/figment.com\/\">Figment<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/readergirlz.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/rock-drop-download-banners-and.html\">Rock the Drop<\/a>. Buy your favorite book, print a bookplate, stick it in the book, and leave it for some lucky YA reader to find. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/readergirlz.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/rock-drop-download-banners-and.html\">Readergirlz site<\/a> to download banners and printable bookplates!<\/p>\n<p>\nHave you signed up for <a href=\"http:\/\/theshadyglade.blogspot.com\/\">Alyssa @ The Shady Glade<\/a>&#8216;s 2011 YA Book Battle? Check out her post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/theshadyglade.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/2011-battle-nominations-open.html\">rules of the contest<\/a>&#8211;you&#8217;ve still got 3 days left to nominate your two favorite overlooked books of 2010, and then the brackets begin! Sounds like fun. I did not volunteer to assist, because if I volunteer for anything else my husband will strenuously object (and with good reason), but there might even be a few spots left for volunteer judges. There&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/32303.The_YA_Bloggers_Book_Battle\">Goodreads group<\/a> so you can keep up with the action. Go check it out!<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd, just because it&#8217;s cool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/making-a-difference\/2011\/0221\/Publishing-children-s-books-and-delivering-them-by-elephant\">children&#8217;s books in Laos, delivered by elephant<\/a>, and a 1980 Mercedes bus that&#8217;s now the <a href=\"http:\/\/rbth.ru\/articles\/2011\/03\/03\/a_library_on_wheels_12519.html\">Bumper Children&#8217;s Book Bus in Russia<\/a>. (Via SCBWI&#8217;s Expression newsletter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right, Teen Literature Day is coming up on April 14th, and this year the Readergirlz are teaming up with the folks at Figment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,18,15,10],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-happenings","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6478,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/6478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}