{"id":1705,"date":"2009-01-02T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:31","slug":"happy-2009-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"Happy 2009! Woot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3142585321\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 align=left src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3078\/3142585321_341c7786e2.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/a>The <a haref=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2008-fantasy-science-fiction-finalists.html?cid=143850596\" target= _blank>LIST<\/a> is out!<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I&#8217;m *so glad* we chose last year to divide the Science Fiction\/Fantasy nominations for the Cybils into MG and YA books &#8212; it&#8217;s so much easier that way to narrow down the great stuff. (Okay, maybe &#8220;so much easier&#8221; was an overly optimistic thing to say. Maybe just &#8220;more reasonable&#8221; is closer to the truth. Or something.) I offer my sincere and enthused congratulations to all the Cybils nomination teams, but especially the SFF &#8212; it&#8217;s a hard job, people, but you&#8217;re the ones who determine my reading choices for the rest of the year! Yay for you!<\/p>\n<p>As a Cybils judge, it&#8217;s my joy to get to hunker down and do the REALLY tough work &#8212; narrowing down eleven fabulous books to &#8230;one in each category. Just one.<\/p>\n<p>Oy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Charlotte&#8217;s posted the books <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/books-im-looking-forward-to-in-2009.html\" target= _blank>she&#8217;s looking forward to reading in 2009.<\/a> Re: <i>Sacred Scars<\/i>, the sequel to <i>Skin Hunger<\/i> &#8212; oh, MY yes. Cannot WAIT for that.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Charlotte, just for commenting one day on her blog, I won a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/final-blog-stop-of-stoway-fantasy-for.html\" target= _blank>Stowaway<\/a>! By R.A. Salvatore and Geno Salvatore, <i>The Stowaway: Stone of Tymora<\/i>, Volume I (Mirrorstone 2008, 287 pp) is a MG adventure fantasy, which I&#8217;ve been looking forward to reading. What a great entrance to 2009! I&#8217;ve won something on the first day. And I used to never win <i>anything<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LIST is out! Once again, I&#8217;m *so glad* we chose last year to divide the Science Fiction\/Fantasy nominations for the Cybils into MG&#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":[15,10],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","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=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5410,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}