We have a blog tour starting on Monday and I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone thought of this novel. First, though, if you haven’t heard about the FCC regs. that will affect book bloggers, you can find links to the discussion at my All About Chiildren’s Books blog. Because of that I’ll be adding [...]

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And we have a winner. Congratulations to Becky from Becky’s Book Reviews.

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So we ended up 17 blogs involved and 29 posts. These including 12 reviews, 1 discussion of Mr. Peterson’s music, and a lot of talk about his characters, his artwork, and his story. Three-day bloggers eligible for the gift certificate are: Becky at A Christian Worldview of Fiction: post 1, post 2, post 3 Becky at [...]

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Normally if we have a tie in the poll for Blogger of the Tour, I’ll do a run-off poll. But since I was so slow in getting to it and since we’ve all forgotten who we liked best, I’m going to let the cousins share the honor. So put your hands together for Noel and [...]

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Noel gave Becky a run for her money, but in the end, Becky is proving to be a hard one to best. So, once again, I’m happy to announce that Becky from Becky’s Book Reviews, wins the Blogger of the Tour Award. Noel, you got the ten dollar prize in my Shakespeare contest, so I [...]

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Eyes Like Stars, by Lisa Mantchev–coming to a theatre near you on Monday! The Amazon link we will use is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312380968 You are welcome to use your own Amazon link as well, but please do use this specific link at least once in every post. This is how we get Technorati ratings. The book cover [...]

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Lots of catch-up junk to discuss. Sorry. Blogger of the Tour Bloggers eligible for the Blogger of the Tour Award for the Darkwood Tour were as follows: Never Jam Today Becky’s Book Reviews Through a Child’s Eyes My Own Little Corner of the World Please vote in the poll at the top of the left sidebar. [...]

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It’s apparent to me that an awful lot of people are on summer vacation already. We had a somewhat subdued tour and definitely subdued voting for Blogger of the Tour. Still, April from Cafe of Dreams came out with the prize, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer gal. Congratulations, April! Check you’re email [...]

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Thanks to all the lovely people who have emailed to tell me that the blog tour’s URL made an appearance in the SCBWI Bulletin this month. That is hugely exciting. 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 [...]

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