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:

On the Awards and Grants page of the SCBWI website are two articles on the recipients of the 2011 Book Launch Award winners and how they used their prizes to promote their books.

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