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After last week’s detour into politics<\/a>, I’m back on track again with a writing-related cartoon–this one pertaining to craft, since we’re going to discuss voice and authenticity during our writing group chat next week. Of course, dialect (or even, dare I say, idiolect) is only one component of authentic narrative voice, and I’m most concerned with the idea of creating an authentic-sounding teen narrator…<\/p>\n

Well, the Cybils nominations<\/a> have closed–hope you had a chance to nominate some worthy books. In thinking about book awards, I remembered a link that a friend of mine sent me called Death By Newbery Medal<\/a>. Although clearly the Somebody Must Die trope isn’t ubiquitous among Newbery books, it happens often enough that someone with a lot of time on their hands created a wiki article and list. It’s rather amusing, though I resent the allegation that “medal awarders are morons.” I’d like to think that our lovely Cybils panelists are a bit more discriminating than that.<\/p>\n

Should boy books be judged by slacker standards simply because there aren’t enough of them, or enough good ones? A review of a dystopian novel over at Interactive Reader<\/a> prompts an interesting discussion in the comments. I would have to say my answer is–to quote Andy Warhol–uh, no<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lastly, in perusing more of the reports from the Kidlit Conference, I just wanted to link to a post by Mark Blevis (of Just One More Book<\/a>) about the powerful community<\/a> we’re building here in the kidlitosphere. Mark raises some important ideas about how we’re all changing the industry in little and not-so-little ways, just by virtue of our communication and coordination as a group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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