If you read my post about the Reading Matters conference - and I know from my stats that a lot of you did read it, you just didn't comment - you'll have seen the picture of Kevin Lee. I've known Kevin for some years; we meet regularly at Booktalkers, where he comes for one reason and one only: he loves children's and YA books. Now he's been rewarded for his love of this fiction with a job as one of this year's Inkys judges - and he's set up a blog, Someone To Write With, which I've popped up on the links at the side. I hope he'll use it fore reviewing, though not the Inkys books, because judges can't do that. We can always use another YA review site.
Go check out Kevin's site!
Thanks for the post and the link, Sue. Yes, I'm really surprised and delighted to be an Inky Awards judge (as my blog posts elaborate).
ReplyDeleteI plan to use my blog for a variety of interests (including on YA literature). It's just a matter of making time!
Well, I'm following your blog now, so I'll find out. Enjoy your judging! Last time I was asked to judge anything it was the Mary Grant Bruce Award for Children's Literature. I was sent seventy-five stories to read. Most of them were awful, some were not for children, one of them was BY a child - they were supposed to be without the author's name, but some proud mother sent in her child's work with a note that this was by "little so-and-so twelve years old". I had to give a prize in the special Gippsland section, because that was one of the conditions of the award. despite the Gippsland entries that year being pretty bad.
ReplyDeleteI chose a short list of seven stories, then gave them to two children, the daughters of my sister's friend, to choose the winner. It was, in general, an exhausting task, so I wish you well in yours. At least your books have been published already!