This is a quick, drive-by posting because I am, busy busy busy. 

If you’re in San Jose, I’ll be at the Barnes and Noble, Eastridge, tomorrow, Thursday October 5th at 4:30 pm for the educator reception.

A thank you to alwayslisa for posting a review of Hugging the Rock on Amazon. A few more reviews and that darn “half star” should be gone. Another thank you to colleenmondor of Chasing Ray for her review of Hugging the Rock in Eclectica magazine. You can read the review here.

I added a few new feeds that may be of interest to you: medinger is the feed for Monica Edinger. ninasnewbery is the LJ home for Nina’s Newbery. Have you nominated your favorite for her mock Newbery yet? Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog can be found atwritingya and buried in the slushpile is at cbaybooks

Other feeds you might not know about related to child lit:bookcarouselbluerosegirls , bookmoot, chickenspaghett, doombookshelves, kid_lit, motherreader, swarmofbeasts, umakrishnaswami, planetesme