Good News Friday: Support Teen Lit Day with Rock the Drop!

Readergirlz and Figment are going to ROCK THE DROP in honor of YALSA's Support Teen Lit Day next Thursday, April 14th.

What does that mean? It means that YA lit lovers all over the world will be dropping books in public places for others to find and enjoy. So keep your eyes open!

You can snag a bookplate for any books you want to release out into the world over at readergirlz, where all day on April 14th there will be photos of people Rocking the Drop (send your own pic to readergirlz AT gmail DOT com).

Imagine people around the globe finding copies of amazing books in unexpected places, gifted out of love for YA lit. COOL.

Are you in?

(Graphics created by the uber-talented David Ostow.)

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Good News Friday: Teen Read Week Tributes!

Over at readergirlz, authors are posting tributes to YALSA's Teen Read Week every 15 minutes today! And yes, many of the Teen Fiction Cafe authors are at the party.

Tonight: A Live! Chat at 9pm EST/6pm PST with Dia Calhoun and Sylvia Engdahl, pioneer sci-fi author!


Just a heads up! Have a great weekend, everyone, and Happy Teen Read Week!

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Promotion Day for Readergirlz! (Plus a big Violet contest)

The lovely Sara Hantz gave up her promo slot this week. Thank you, Sara!

I'm so excited that Violet in Private is the featured readergirlz choice for August. Do you guys know about readergirlz? They choose a book each month and interview the author, then post discussion questions on their page and in the readergirlz myspace forum. The girlz make suggestions for parties related to the featured book and put up an author-chosen soundtrack. Also, a community service project is linked to each title (how cool is that?). NOW's Love Your Body Foundation is linked to Violet, which makes me really proud.

Anyway, go visit if you can, and join the discussions on the forum, where we're talking fashion, fame, and finding your true self among all the noise. Oh, and tell your librarian about the downloadable poster created by the lovely Dia Calhoun!

Also, I wanted to mention that I'm having a BIG contest over on melissacwalker.com. It involves making a tribute to Violet, and I've already gotten a few entries, but the contest is open until September 1st, so read the rules here and get creative.

Happy Thursday, everyone!

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