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I love this. Gina over at Trying to Write took the March 2nd (evening) TwitterLit post and used it as a writing prompt. The first line that she's playing off of is "The price of wishes had officially gone up." Take a look at what she's done with it.
If I'd but known of them in time I would have liked to put these two first lines on TwitterLit on the same day:
Entry for January 15, 2008 AM.
Entry for December 11, 2007 AM.
TwitterLit has been named mashup of the day over at MashupAwards. Here's the specific page.
I have one of the best first lines ever planned for Monday morning's KidderLit post. I think it's going to surprise people. I think people will click through to make sure I didn't make a mistake.
Keep your eyes open for it!
Everything TypePad, TypePad's official blog, has mentioned Twitterlit in its Who's in the news? post. TwitterLit and KidderLit, of course, are TypePad blogs, as are all my many other blogs--I'm very happy with the service. (The newest in my universe is a blog about the sitcom Bewitched.)
TwitterLit and KidderLit have been mentioned in the School Library Journal again, this time in an interesting article about Twitter by Christopher Harris: Tweets at Your Library.
I'm thrilled to announce that TwitterLit and KidderLit now have bookmarklets! And as partial as I am to Twitter, bookmarklets may be the handiest way yet to get first lines delivered, right in your browser window.
A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that's written with javascript. When you click on the link, it performs whatever function it was scripted to perform. In this case, The TwitterLit and KidderLit bookmarklets each open up a popup window that shows the two most recent entries.
To install a bookmarklet, just click the link below and drag it up to your browser's bookmark toolbar:
That's it! Then, whenever you'd like a quick literary diversion, click the bookmarklet and see what first lines are waiting for you.
Here's a preview of what the KidderLit popup window looks like:
Because I am nothing if not hip, I videotaped my October BAFAB Week drawing. View the video to find out if you're a winner:
Oh, fine, if you can't see the video for any reason, the winner is (select the rectangle to view the hidden text):
BOOKLOGGED
Who wins a free copy of:
A SIMPLE PLAN BY SCOTT SMITH
Contact me with your mailing address and I'll place an order via Amazon right away!
Tags: BAFAB, Buy a Friend a Book, contest drawing
It's horrible, I know. Here I am, the originator of BAFAB Week, and people all around are throwing BAFAB contests and being all generous, and I have yet to do anything about it.
I have an excuse. I've been sick since Saturday, and busy with KidderLit, the newest site in my online universe. But still. I'm ashamed of myself.
So here's the story. This BAFAB Week's guest reviewer Gail Gauthier and I recommended six different books for BAFAB. You can read our reviews here. The books are:
Laura Whitcomb, A Certain Slant of Light
Joseph Finder, Power Play
M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation
Alan Alda, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
Catherine Fisher, Corbenic
Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
I am prepared to send one of these books to a lucky winner. I'll hold a drawing on October 8th of all the entrants. Here's how to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post with your name and your book of choice. That will buy you one ticket in the drawing.
2. Because I'd like to spread the word about my various projects, blog about TwitterLit or KidderLit, including links to one or both sites. Leave a comment here with your name and book of choice and the URL of your blog post. That will get you two tickets in the drawing.
The winner will be notified by email on October 8th and will have to supply me then with a shipping address. I'll ship out the book via Amazon. Good luck!
I'm cross-posting this at a number of my sites. Wherever you happen to come upon it, just enter the contest via the comments at that site.
Tags: BAFAB, contests, free books
Lauren Barack has written a very nice article about KidderLit for School Library Journal's newsletter Extra Helping. You can read it online here. Here's a snippet:
"With 2,500 subscribers to TwitterLit alone, Hamel hopes that KidderLit will attract school librarians and teachers looking to give a little twist to their students’ literature needs.
"While any children’s book is fair game for the site, Hamel does like topical themes. During Banned Books Week, a post read simply: 'They murdered him.' It’s a reference to Robert Cormier’s disturbing novel The Chocolate War, a perennial target for book banners."
Plus, I particularly like the article's last paragraph.
Tags: Banned Books Week, children's literature, KidderLit, Lauren Barack, School Library Journal, TwitterLit
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