Can you believe it? Eighteen of this year's Cybils-nominated authors are getting a spot in the limelight this week during the Winter Blog Blast Tour organized by Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray. For your convenience, here is a list of dates, Cybils-nominated titles, and links:
Monday, November 17
Lewis Buzbee, Steinbeck's Ghost (MG Fiction)
Chasing Ray
Laurel Snyder, Up and Down the Scratchy Mountains (MG Fiction) and Inside the Slidy Diner (Fiction Picture Books)
Miss Erin
Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom (YA Fiction)
Finding Wonderland
Tuesday, November 18
Melissa Walker, Violet in Private (YA Fiction)
Hip Writer Mama
Luisa Plaja, Split by a Kiss (YA Fiction)
Bildungsroman
D.M. Cornish, Lamplighter (Fantasy and Sci-Fi)
Finding Wonderland
Wednesday, November 19
Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace (MG Fiction)
A Fuse #8 Production
M.T. Anderson, Octavian Nothing Vol. II (YA Fiction)
Finding Wonderland
Mitali Perkins, First Daughter: White House Rules (MG Fiction)
Mother Reader
Thursday, November 20
Martin Millar, Lonely Werewolf Girl (Fantasy and Sci-Fi)
Chasing Ray
Beth Kephart, The House of Dance (YA Fiction)
Hip Writer Mama
Emily Ecton, Boots and Pieces (Fantasy and Sci-Fi)
Bildungsroman
Brandon Mull, Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague (Fantasy and Sci-Fi)
The YA YA YAs
Friday, November 21
Mayra Lazara Dole, Down to the Bone (YA Fiction)
Chasing Ray
Frances O'Roark Dowell, Shooting the Moon (MG Fiction)
A Fuse #8 Production
J. Patrick Lewis, Birds on a Wire: A Renga 'round Town (Poetry)
Writing and Ruminating
Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star (MG Fiction)
Hip Writer Mama
Caroline Hickey, Isabelle's Boyfriend (YA Fiction)
Mother Reader
For the full Winter Blog Blast Tour schedule, visit Chasing Ray.