This link right here will take you to a lovely post by the new organizer for our new category. Mary Ann Scheuer was early to jump aboard the app wagon and brings her expertise to the Cybils. Welcome aboard, Mary Ann!
Books and Ebooks and Apps, Oh My!
Opening day for Cybils 2011 is fast approaching and you know what that means — yet more changes to the contest. We thought we'd just be tweaking around the margins at this point in our six-year history. But that's an eon in the digital age, and we've had to pivot quickly to avoid becoming the Jurassic Awards. This year is …
Latte & NPR
I hope everyone's having a wonderful summer and getting ready for the next Cybils season. We'll be losing Sarah Stevenson as our editor, but for good reason. She's out promoting her novel, "The Latte Rebellion." It's getting some great buzz out there, including this interview on NPR. Check it out.
Cybils Winners Around the World
Just found out via the SCBWI Expression e-newsletter that the 2008 Cybils winner for Fiction Picture Books–How to Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham–has been translated into Persian by Iranian children's book author and translator Parvin Ali-pour. How cool is that? We think it's extremely cool. Congratulations, Bob! You can read more about the translation on the Iran Book …
Get Your Cybil Award Stickers Right Here!
Don't forget that if you're a winning author or illustrator (or publisher of such, or even a bookseller selling the winning titles), you can buy shiny golden Cybil Award Winner stickers to put on your book covers. To the right is a picture of what these gorgeous things look like, and you can buy them right here in our Cybils …
Cybils Finalists Recognized in International Book Awards
Some good news today for Cybils SFF finalist titles from international authors: Karen Healey's Guardian of the Dead is a finalist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, and Plain Kate by Erin Bow is a finalist for the Canadian Library Association's 2011 Book of the Year for Children Award. Congrats to Erin and Karen on earning additional well-deserved …
Writers and Bloggers Are Stepping Up
…to help those affected by the recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan. Via Galleycat, author Maureen Johnson has launched an online fundraiser with Shelterbox to help out earthquake victims in Japan, similar to the one that she organized for New Zealand. Check out the details here on Maureen's blog. Zoe Toft of the Playing by the Book blog, and …
A Sad Day
The children's and YA literature community has suffered a major loss: today we found out that Lisa Wolfson, perhaps better known to us as author L.K. Madigan, has lost her battle with pancreatic cancer. Earlier this year, she shared the difficult news in a heartfelt blog post. Today, her agent and friend Jennifer Laughran posted a memorial to her, including …
More Cybils Love
Our winners aren't the only ones who've been posting lovely things about the Cybils during these heady post-announcement days: Kelly Jensen of Stacked, one of our Round I panelists for YA Fiction, wrote a fantastic and well-worded blog post on Why the Cybils Matter, saying: "If you want a good slice of what the best books of the year were …
Sharing the Cybils Love
As always, we're truly tickled to see the reactions of our Cybils-winning authors and illustrators. Check out what some of them have said over the past few days since the announcement: YA Fiction winner Swati Avasthi tweeted: "HOLY WOW! SPLIT RECEIVED THE #CYBILS AWARD YA (Is it a bird? is it a plane? No, it's an author with a CYBILS award in …