becoming real . . .

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." -- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

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i just discovered Southern Breeze SCBWI . . . serving Alabama, Georgia & Mississippi . . . check out their homepage and while your there read their newsletter!

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interesting BEA podcast entitled BEA Selects: Reader Centric Publishing – Bringing Authors and Readers Together some really interesting stuff here on what publishers are doing to help bring authors and readers together using the various forms of social media.

and a whole pageful of brief picture-book author interviews from BEA (BookExpo America).

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and this really, really, cool youtube of Oliver Jeffers reading STUCK: