{"id":320,"date":"2015-12-29T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:26","slug":"anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cybils-Logo-2015-Web-Sm.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Cybils-Logo-2015-Web-Sm.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a very special day coming up, and I wanted to drum up a little buzz&#8211;I&#8217;m talking about New Year&#8217;s Day, yes, but it also happens to be CYBILS SHORTLIST DAY, a red-letter day around the kidlitosphere. January 1st is when all 10 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils Award<\/a> categories announce their shortlists to the world. These shortlists are an invaluable tool for parents, librarians, and booksellers who are interested in the grassroots blogging world&#8217;s favorite titles of the year. Personally, I find them amazing for gift-giving as well as for my own reading enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, after that comes the Round 2 judging process, when a second slate of judges in each category picks a winner (heh heh&#8230;sorry) to receive the 2015 Cybils Award. Those will be announced on Valentine&#8217;s Day. Tanita and I are excited to be serving together on the Round 2 panel for YA Spec Fic&#8211;we read a lot of the same stuff, but we also encounter plenty of different books in our reading explorations, so it will be a lot of fun to booktalk the same titles this time. I suspect you might see a few tandem reviews in the future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils site<\/a> on Friday to check out the shortlists! And you can always peruse a selection of nominated titles reviewed on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cybils.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils blog<\/a> by hardworking volunteers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very special day coming up, and I wanted to drum up a little buzz&#8211;I&#8217;m talking about New Year&#8217;s Day, yes, but it&#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":[2,61,10],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-cybils-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8765,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/8765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}