The tech news column in the May/June issue ran an article by Mark London Williams, titled The Road Digitally Travelled. It was about marketing books online, and it quoted our old pal Alan Gratz. Williams also noted that Alan had taken our tour, once upon a time. So we got our URL listed in the magazine right out there in front of God and tens of thousands of children’s writers worldwide. (Well, OK it’s 22,000, but tens of thousands sounds a little more grand, don’t you think?)
Anyway, I’m thrilled to have the kidzBookBuzz.com URL go out to those 20,000+ children’s writers. Thank you, Mr. Gratz, for allowing us to ride your coattails into that wonderful magazine.
And may I take a minute to sing SCBWI’s praises? If you are a children’s writer or illustrator and you are not a member of SCBWI, you are crazy. It is such a wonderful community of writers and they offer up a wealth of information and opportunities. And it’s inexpensive. It is, without equivocation, the best writers’ organization around (I’ve belonged to several). It gives you oodles of help for a paltry yearly membership fee. And if you aren’t a children’s writer or illustrator, but you are interested in children’s books, it would be a great for you to join SCBWI, too. Journalists, bloggers, and librarians can join as associate members. It’s a great way to keep up with the children’s publishing world.
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Editor’s note:
I originally posted that I never received my copy of the Bulletin this month. I’ve edited that bit out, because after I blogged about it the SCBWI folks wrote to tell me they were sending me another copy to replace the one that got lost in the mail. Are they not the best?
7 responses so far ↓
1 Kim Norman // Jun 8, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Glad you got a replacement issue, Sally. It’s well-deserved publicity. Thanks for makin’ me a little bit famous, too!
Kim Norman
2 sally apokedak // Jun 8, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Ha! Your tour brought more traffic to our blogs than anyone else’s has so far, Kim. So I’m thinking it’s you making us famous.
3 Kathryn Fitzmaurice // Jun 10, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Sally, now we just have to get you over on Twitter! You’d be fabulous there!!
4 sally apokedak // Jun 11, 2009 at 11:11 am
Ha ha. I do have a twitter account under my own name. Never set one up for the blog.
I don’t ever twitter, though. I can’t see how anyone can find time to read all those posts!
Is there a secret to that?
sally apokedak’s last blog post..Royalty, Dragons, and Mages, oh my!
5 Kathryn Fitzmaurice // Jun 11, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I don’t know if there’s a secret to it. But perhaps you could link your blog posts to your twitter posts. I take a few minutes each morning to go through who I’m following and often find interesting information. I typically only tweet about things I feel are noteworthy. But not always!
6 Samantha Hagar // Jun 23, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I just had to say that I’m one of those readers who found your site thru that article in the may/jun SCBWI bulletin – and agreed, they are a great organization. I’m glad I didn’t pass over the tech column! kidzbookbuzz is wonderful and is now added to my Favorites!
Samantha Hagar’s last blog post..the power of art
7 sally apokedak // Jun 23, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Thanks, Samantha, for stopping by and commenting. I hope you find lots of great books here and maybe one day we’ll be touring one of your books.
I hope, because I love tween fantasy.