{"id":1577,"date":"2009-07-01T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:10","slug":"kidlitosphere-central-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"A Kidlitosphere Central PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_nIccA6r7lXY\/SksxlAfnU9I\/AAAAAAAABdw\/vHBSpzSnVR0\/s1600-h\/292922398v3_350x350_Front.jpg\" target=_blank title=\"Lainey's Kidlit Bag Design, CafePress\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/292922398v3_350x350_Front.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Now that she&#8217;s has been laid off from her library (On one hand, &#8220;Booo!&#8221; on the other hand, can&#8217;t wait to see what she does next), MotherReader is taking this bittersweet gift of extra time to begin preparations for the <a href=\"http:\/\/kidlitosphere.org\/KidLitosphere_Central\/KidLitosphere_Conference\/KidLitosphere_Conference.html\" target= _blank>The 3rd Annual Kidlitosphere Conference<\/a>. The 2009 conference will take place in Washington, DC, on Saturday, October 17th, and it has a couple of field trips attached &#8212; one to the Library Of Congress, if all goes well. At $100 or so, this is one of the least expensive Conferences I&#8217;ve heard about, and it includes two meals as well as the usual meet-and-greet and the presentations and panel discussions. <b>Writers and bloggers alike:<\/b> If you&#8217;re able to go at all, especially in these grim times for publishing and the bookworld, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwoodmeeting.com\/StarGroupsWeb\/booking\/reservation?id=0905016223&#038;key=E606B\" target= _blank><i>GO<\/i><\/a>. I can&#8217;t help but believe that my fellow children&#8217;s lit enthusiasts, given time, enough coffee, and a quiet room, can come up with solutions to some of the publishing world&#8217;s problems. <\/p>\n<p>*Aquafortis met one of our Summer Blog Blast Tour interviewee at the Conference, and a surprising number of writers in the area come out and meet their readers. It&#8217;s apparently an awesome time, and SOMEDAY I&#8217;ll manage to go. Not this year, though. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that she&#8217;s has been laid off from her library (On one hand, &#8220;Booo!&#8221; on the other hand, can&#8217;t wait to see what she&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}