brief tidbits of awesomeness

First of all: Check out this amazing drawing by Renee Combs. It was in response to my blog post about the bum deal YA gets in review pages (in response to a NYTBR essay about YA). I wrote a line "Wake up and smell the YA" and a bunch of people seized on it as our YA slogan and I said, hey, let's do a t-shirt, with a coffee cup and books coming out as steam and Renee went and drew this AWESOME picture with some of the books I mentioned in the post (and If I Stay, which I didn't mention, but...