Cybils love from Carol Rasco

We're so pleased to have a friend in Carol Rasco, CEO of Reading is Fundamental.  I have a lot of childhood memories wrapped up with RIF.  They sent a bookmobile to a small park in my grandparents' Miami Beach neighborhood, where I spent many a happy summer.  I'd come back with a sunburned nose because I couldn't take it out …

Operation Teen Book Drop 2009

What are you doing on April 16, 2009? Maybe celebrating the fact that tax day has come and gone…but once you're done with that, you might want to take part in Operation TBD 2009, in honor of Support Teen Literature Day. As part of a group effort by readergirlz, GuysLitWire, YALSA, and publishers, teen patients in pediatric hospitals across the …

One Last Reviews Roundup

We really wanted to make sure that all of our winning titles were featured on the Cybils blog in some way–and we also wanted to plug just a few more of our wonderful, hardworking, blogging volunteers–so here's one last roundup of reviews of Cybils-winning titles that haven't yet been featured here on the main blog. Fantasy and Sci-Fi category organizer …

Calling all interviewers

If you were a panelist or judge this year, would you like to do a Q&A with one of the winners?  I'll try and set it all up with the publicists, but wanted to coordinate it centrally so we don't all step on each other's toes or have too much duplication. Email me at anne (at) bookbuds (dot) net if …

Cybils 2008 by the numbers

My apologies to the Harper's Index. Total number of nominated books: 843 Percent read by at least one panelist: 98 Percent read by at least two panelists: 92 Number of winning authors and illustrators: 15 Cost, in dollars, of Lanier Classic Fountain Pen for each winner: 65 Page views on opening day, Oct. 1st, 2008: 4,942 Page views on Jan. …

Updated Cybils Flyer Includes Winning Books

The final version of our printer-friendly flyer is here! In convenient, compact form, this document lists all of our 2008 shortlisted titles (without blurbs), and includes the winners in boldface type at the top of each category list. As before, the front page of the flyer includes a description of what the Cybils are all about, nomination instructions, important dates, …

More Cybils Fanfare

The Cybils team has, of course, been thrilled at the Cybils-themed graphics that we received from Mo Willems and from the Rapunzel's Revenge team of Shannon and Dean Hale and Nathan Hale (see the images in the posts below). But we are equally thrilled by these other author and media responses to the Cybils: The Cybils award was mentioned in …

More Graphic Cybils Love

Jack and Rapunzel of Cybils GN winner Rapunzel's Revenge–aka Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, and Nathan Hale–have graced us with not just a fabulous page of comics ALL ABOUT US (click the comic to view larger), but have also said we're their favorite awards. Hooray! Looks like we're all in a celebratin' mood. Thanks, Shannon, Dean, and Nathan!

Belated Dedication

I was in such a frantic rush to edit the winners' list and get it posted that I never wrote a dedication.  I decided to post it somewhat belatedly, if you all don't mind.