KidLit Con and the Cybils Awards

I try to avoid commenting on time's where-did-it-go-to nature, but I was surprised to realize I've been blogging for just over three years. It still seems pretty new. I like the way it sometimes asks me to take an outside look at the inner process, and especially how it lets me be in touch with people around the country. Like my daughter and her old friends Zach and Liz, and her roommate Colleen; with people overseas, like Amy, and someone across the table, like my husband, and people I don't know: thank you for reading! It's also been wonderful getting to know like-minded people online, and I'm very excited to get to meet bloggers and poets like Toby, Laura, Susan, Mary Lee and others at KidLit Con http://kidlitcon2010.blogspot.com/ to be held in Minneapolis later this month. I'm also excited to get to see a lovely person I've known not online, but since she was a baby. Samantha's in her first semester at Macalester College there, and I look forward to seeing a bit of her world.



Bloggers also have their own book awards, and Cybils nominations for beloved books published in the past year can come from anyone until October 15. Click on this link http://www.cybils.com/ for more information Thanks you, Jenny jenny_moss , for nominating Borrowed Names in the Poetry category! I'm still pondering my own nominations, which I tend to do shortly before the deadline, though it means books I wanted to cheer for have already been named and I have to stretch my mind about publication dates. It's fun to read the lists and remember books that bedazzled me or that I meant to read, a reminder to get offline and ruffle some pages.

It's going to be a hard-writing week, with a glimpse of an end to a pretty-finished draft in view. Thrilling and nerve-wracking. Will this be it? Did I save the right words?