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Another Thursday, another batch of member contests. There’s contests to enter and contests to vote on, not to mention entrants to R&R. So much to do, so little time.
These contests are open for submission:
These contests would like your votes:
It’s Thursday and everyone knows what that means! Git yer contest hats on. A bunch of fun stuff this week to get involved with. As always there’s a bunch of Twilight Contests - you Twilight fans are so active - plus, make your own FanLib Fortune Cookies. Cool Huh?
Member contests open for submissions:
These contests will end by next Thursday (which is my birthday) and need your votes.
I actually haven't set foot in one of my favorite bookstores in almost twenty-five years...but I don't think I'd be a writer today if I hadn't gone there frequently as a child and young teen.
The store is The Bunch of Grapes Bookshop in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard. I grew up spending a lot of time on the Vineyard when it was still a funky, artistic-y place, before it was "discovered". So you got used to seeing James Taylor or Walter Cronkite or Ruth Gordon or Art Buchwald on the streets or in restaurants, and you just ignored them, because on the Vineyard it just didn't matter.
I had (still have!) a wonderful mom who could never say no to buying me books, so a trip to the Bunch of Grapes was de rigueur every weekend we were on the Vineyard. And it was during some of these trips that I found books that I'd never seen anywhere else--books like Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising series and Dorothy Hartley's Lost Country Life and Evangeline Walton's The Mabinogion, a retelling of ancient Welsh myths and a book I still re-read and buy for people to read because it's that good. These books are a big reason why I write YA historical and fantasy fiction today...and I might never had found them at a critical time in my reading life if the wonderful people at Bunch of Grapes didn't have a fabulous children's book section back before children's books were "important".
Thanks, guys, for introducing me to those books.Sounds like she needs to plan an author event on the Vineyard! We'll come to that!
By: HarperTeen Editor,
on 7/10/2008
By: The Class of 2k8,
on 1/31/2008
