I’ve been offline for a month except for the occasional blog post (no Twitter/FB). But I decided to allow myself a splurge over American Thankgiving weekend and have been tweeting to all my writer pals that I’ve missed. Also, because I wanted to post some thank yous here!

Thank you so much to Deb Marshall for nominating THE RIGHT & THE REAL for a Cybil Award. That was a nice surprise, which I found out about after getting a cryptic message from Heather Brewer telling me “Congratulations on being nominated for a YA award.” That was the first I heard of it, which sent me Googling and I discovered the Cybil nomination.

But, it turns out, that’s not what Heather was referring to! She had seen a tweet online from Lauren Abramo at my agency congratulating me on being on a nominee on the Young Adult Library Services Associations’ BFYA list! I think that stands for Best Fiction Young Adult, but I couldn’t really find that anywhere.

I have to say that I’m very grateful to YALSA for putting me on this list (again! Restoring Harmony was also on it in 2010). I truly believe that one of the best ways for kids to find out about books is through librarians (and indie booksellers! Oh, and crazy writers in chain stores – see post below this one).  And we all know that librarians can’t read everything. So by creating this fabulous list, it helps all of us writers, but especially those of us who have “smaller” book releases, and not trilogies with huge publicity budgets behind them. So thank you to ALA & YALSA, and all you wonderful librarians who are out there championing the books you love. I’m very grateful.

And congratulations to my bestest pal, Eileen Cook, who is also on the BFYA list for Unraveling Isobel!