Happy Sunday my friends, I hope this post is finding you well!

As most who follow me on Twitter know I’ve been extremely busy at work and was tremendously pleased to have this weekend off to do as I wanted.  I’ve run errands, done laundry, took my niece out to lunch and was even lazy enough to luxuriate with a nap.  Now today will be another day filled with laundry, a bit of cleaning, paying bills and recording the two giant piles of books I have sitting in a chair in my TBR spreadsheet.  Oh and writing blog posts!  I must write some blog posts!

Wanting to catch you up on a couple of things before I dive into the duties of my day.

Made From Awesome Mega Chat

I’m super jazzed about this awesome two-night author event sponsored by YALitChat.  Some of YA’s finest will be brought together on April 14 and 15 to discuss their work, publishing and just about all things YA.  I’m not going to list all of the participating authors here but I will say it’s a pretty powerful line-up.  A veritable who’s who of young adult literature.  So go read the Made From Awesome Mega Chat post on the YALitChat blog, grab the button and please participate.

Tell all your friends about it and encourage them to tell all their friends as well!  It’s going to be, well made from awesome!

Nerds Heart YA Nominations

I’m equally excited about the progress of the Nerds Heart YA tournament.  Jodie, Amy, Trish and I are busily putting together the judging bracket and are hoping to get that announced in the next couple of weeks.   But, we don’t want progress to come to a halt in the meantime, so get your patoots out there and nominate some eligible titles for the tournament!  We’re looking for books that have been authored by or include a character in the following categories:

  • Person(s) of Color (POC)
  • GLBT
  • Disability/Mental Ilness
  • Religious Lifestyle
  • Lower Socioeconomic Status

Hop on over to the Nerds Heart YA nomination form to submit as many titles as you’d like up until the form closes on March 31, 2010.

Book Blogger Convention

Organizing and registration is still going strong for the First Annual Book Blogger Convention to be held May 28th in NYC.  We’ve recently started collecting contributions for our charity raffle, swag bags and have announced a Thursday evening author reception.  Everyone is welcome to contribute, if you have an item you’d like to include please don’t hesitate to contact us at bookbloggercon[at]gmail[dot]com we’d love to hear from you.

Also, if you’re planning to go to BEA and want to hang out with a bunch of cool bloggers that Friday register!  $115 will get you Thursday author reception, Friday conference with breakfast and lunch, and an awesome opportunity to network with all sorts of awesome bloggers, authors and publishing industry types.

So that’s about the size of things here this Sunday.  I hope today finds you productive, lazy, or whatever you want to be!