The 2011 YA Fantasy & Science Fiction Judges

Okay, I admit it. This is my favorite list, and not just because I’m on it. I actually keep trying to get off of it, but organizer Sheila Ruth insists I add something to the mix. Probably chocolate but I can’t tell. This is the group that once had a judge give birth mid-season — via c-section — and debated books from her hospital bed. We have a panelist who hunts down US titles in Scotland every year and then posts from there while we’re all asleep. It’s a genre that inspires fanatical devotion, and rightly so.

Round One

Sheila Ruth
Wands and Worlds

Tanita Davis
Finding Wonderland

Maureen Kearney
Confessions of a Bibliovore

Vivian Lee Mahoney
Vivian Lee Mahoney

Sommer Leigh
Tell Great Stories

Steve Berman
Guys Lit Wire

Hallie Tibbets
Undusty New Books

Round Two

Anne Levy
Cybils

Sam Musher
Parenthetical

Aurora Celeste
YASFF Blog

Kimberly Francisco
STACKED

Julie Jurgens
Hi Miss Julie