{"id":2530,"date":"2007-05-09T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:29","slug":"few-belated-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"A Few Belated Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TadMack and I have been inordinately busy the past week or so. This has been reflected in our minor disappearance from blogging. It will also be reflected in the belatedness, the total behind-the-times-ness of today&#8217;s linkage, but oh well. What can you do?<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>There&#8217;s a fascinating discussion on Disco Mermaids about what it means to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/discomermaids.blogspot.com\/2007\/04\/battle-of-booksliterary-versus.html\">literary vs. commercial<\/a> book. I struggle with that myself: I&#8217;d love to write something considered literary, and that nerd in me just LOVES to win awards, but there&#8217;s another part of me that would consider it a major achievement just to make a living as a writer, commercial or whatever&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ala.org\/yalsa.php?title=congratulations_to_coe_booth&#038;more=1&amp;c=1&#038;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">YALSA blog<\/a>, new YA author Coe Booth has won the LA Times Prize for YA Literature for  his <b>her<\/b> first novel, Tyrell, beating out bright lights in the finalist list: AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES by John Green, RULES OF SURVIVAL by Nancy Werlin, ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING by M T Anderson, and JUST IN CASE by Meg Rosoff.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Congrats to Fuse #8&#8217;s Betsy for <a href=\"http:\/\/fusenumber8.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/balls-says-queen.html\">publishing an article about us bloggers<\/a> in the Horn Book. Yay! Can&#8217;t wait to read it. Unfortunately, that&#8217;s still on my to-do list.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of the Horn Book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/horn-book-20.html\">Read Roger<\/a> has the scoop on the newly redesigned Horn Book website, which includes a wonderful little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbook.com\/history\/\">virtual history exhibit<\/a> and other neat stuff.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TadMack and I have been inordinately busy the past week or so. This has been reflected in our minor disappearance from blogging. It will&#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":[2,15,10,86,73],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-random-notes-and-errata","tag-views","tag-web-wanderings","tag-world-o-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}