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Book Notes

This is a series that Large Hearted Boy does on his blog about music and books. Love that Boy!

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/a...

A Chance to Win Free Stuff!!

I'm currently giving away a free copy of INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BROKEN HEART right here on Goodreads - contest ends May 5th.

Also, head on over to Anna's Book Blog and check out the opportunity to win a free eBook of SONGS FOR A TEENAGE NOMAD from Sourcebooks. They're so nice :)

Thank you to Anna and Sourcebooks!

http://annavivian.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Writing is Our Lens

I think everyone has a unique point of view; it's this lens that makes each writer have such an exclusive take on the world. Here's an interview I did for WithABook book blog in conjunction with my new young adult novel INSTRUCTIONS FOR A BROKEN HEART released this month with Sourcebooks Fire.

Check it out!:

http://withabook.blogspot.com/2011/05...

How Reading Shaped Me

Guest Post on my reading influences (and a chance to win a free copy of Songs for a Teenage Nomad).

the1stdaughter Guest Post and Giveaway: Kim Culbertson Author of Songs for a Teenage Nomad http://goo.gl/fb/5NL1H

Win a copy of Songs for a Teenage Nomad

Want to win a free copy of the new Sourcebooks Fire edition of Songs for a Teenage Nomad? Check out this great blog to win a free copy:

http://litbites.blogspot.com/2010/09/songs-for-teenage-nomad-by-kim.html

Win a free copy of Songs for a Teenage Nomad

Want to win a free copy of the new Sourcebooks Fire edition of Songs for a Teenage Nomad? Check out this great blog for a chance to win!!

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New YA Newsletter from Author Kim Culbertson

Hi all,I've started a new YA newsletter called Point of View. Subscribe if you want at my website: http://www.kimculbertson.com/newsletter.html. Each month in my newsletter I will feature a YA book I love, a writing exercise for you writers out there inspired by the novel, and also an assignment for teachers that could go along with the book. The April newsletter is now available!
Point of View.
Because writer's write. But they also read.
Thanks!
Kim
author, Songs for a Teenage NomadSourcebooks...

All I Want for Christmas: A Holiday Buying Guide

On She Writes, a fabulous site for women writers, they've invited us to post our holiday buying guide of books by women writers. I thought I'd post a little list of my own here to honor those women writers who've made and continue to make such an impression on me.

Let's start with the YA women writers who continue to remind me why I'm such a word nerd.
I have so many favorites but here are ten that come to mind:

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

Ballads of Suburbia by Stephanie Kuehnert

The I...

Living Ish-fully Ever After

My five year old daughter loves the book ISH by Peter Reynolds. It's a lovely little story about being creative without needing to be "perfect," that the joy of creating far outweighs the need for an exact product. When she draws something now, she tends to say "This doesn't look like a lighthouse, Mommy, but it looks lighthouse-ish." In the book, the main character learns that he can also write ISH-fully and ultimately relax ISH-fully. Life, he finds, is in the ISH.

This year, I read ISH to m...

A Four and Five Star World

Okay, so I know that not all books are created equal. Even within the same genre, there are good books and not as good books. I certainly don't begin to imagine for a second that every book out there is going to get four or five stars on Amazon, or goodreads, or Shelfari or wherever from every reader out there.

But I've decided that on my goodreads page, I'm only going to review books to which I give four or five stars. Now, now, before you go equating this to grade inflation, let me explain.

I'm