{"id":1431,"date":"2010-04-15T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:45","slug":"thursday-procrastination-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1431","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Procrastination Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PSSST! Heard about the kidlitosphere&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/jkrbooks.typepad.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/baby-news.html\">Jen Robinson and her big, big news<\/a>? Go check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/S8dSTla8RYI\/AAAAAAAACh4\/Zx7JXovrW44\/s1600\/CybilsWinnerStickerFinal.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/CybilsWinnerStickerFinal.jpg\" \/><\/a>Before I amuse and astound you all with a handful of enjoyable links (or rather, amaze you with how behind the times I am in posting them), anyone who IS a Cybils winner or finalist, or KNOWS one, please read this post describing how you or your publisher can get <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2010\/02\/cybils-awards-store-now-open.html\">super-nifty Cybils award stickers<\/a> for your book! Great for conferences and signings! There&#8217;s no year on the sticker, so winners or finalists from past years can use them, too. Help support the Cybils and our cool prizes for winning authors\/illustrators&#8211;buy stickers for your books! EVERYTHING MUST GO! <\/p>\n<p>OK, now that that&#8217;s out of the way, here are a few YA book lists to think about from Flavorwire (via my friend Fumi): <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/70830\/graphic-content-10-literary-classics-made-better-as-comic-books\">10 Literary Classics Made Better as Comic Books<\/a> (what a claim!! go check it out), <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/77501\/top-10-young-adult-lit-picks\">10 Best Young Adult Books for Grownups<\/a> (not sure some of these are actually YA, but whatever, <i>The Westing Game<\/i> is still awesome), and, just for fun, <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/80764\/10-awesome-and-inappropriate-books-for-kids\">10 Awesome and Inappropriate Books for Kids<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Did you know it&#8217;s National Library Week? Susan Kusel at Booklights reminds us to be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/parents\/booklights\/archives\/2010\/04\/thank-a-library-worker-today.html\">thank a library worker<\/a> for their unflagging toil in a time when libraries seem to be underfunded (if not underappreciated&#8211;though I appreciate mine regularly!). And Greg Pincus has created a great little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehappyaccident.net\/the-search-is-over\/\">video over at The Happy Accident<\/a> reminding us why libraries rock. So, thanks, libraries and library workers for your super awesomeness!<\/p>\n<p>Bonus linkage: If you&#8217;re like me and stress about whether you&#8217;re blogging too much or not enough or don&#8217;t have anything to say or any of the myriad of little pestering thoughts that keep us from paying proper attention to our blogs, go check out Lee&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/zenofblogging.blogspot.com\/\">Zen of Blogging<\/a> website&#8211;his weekly tips are reassuring, thoughtful, and&#8211;I&#8217;ll just come right out and sound dorky&#8211;mentally rejuvenating. Honestly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSSST! Heard about the kidlitosphere&#8217;s own Jen Robinson and her big, big news? Go check it out! Before I amuse and astound you all&#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":[2,60,61,99,15,10],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-book-news","tag-cybils-news","tag-libraries","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","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=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6051,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/6051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}