Fusenews: Not That I Don’t Also Love the Term “Golly-Up”

• I’ve been scooped!  Scooped, I say!  Scooped!  There’s been a lot of time travel going on these days.  Literature, television, movies, you name it.  Time travel is in.  So on Goodreads the other day Molly O’Neill and I had a comment-based discussion talking about the books you’d love to go back in time and give to your younger self.  We mentioned that it might be a good thing to write a blog post about.  But while I hemmed and hawed about it, Molly went out and got things done!  Time-Traveler’s Library/Book Fairy covers Molly’s hand-it-to-yourself-when-young list.  She’s upped the bar.  I intend to meet the challenge head on at some point.

• I guess you could call this publishing humor.  For my part, I’m just happy that it answers that age old question of how many copy editors it takes to screw in a lightbulb.

• I’m slow to a lot of trends, but without having small children of my own the show Yo Gabba Gabba totally passed me by.  Now I find that they’ve had on live performances and bands so hip I’m utterly unaware of their existence.  Look at this list of the Top 10 Yo Gabba Gabba Musical Guests Season One and you’ll see a frightening plethora.  The Shins?  Really?  Aw geeze.  I’ve heard of them.  Thanks to Kids Music that Rocks for the link.

• Amazon.com’s getting into the publishing game.  The self -publishing game.  According to Publishers Weekly they’re "focused on self-published books with promise, [and] could also target out-of-print titles from major houses."  They seem to be primarily interesting in the adult side of things thus far, but give it time, people.  Give it time.  Thanks to PW Daily for the link.

• *cough*  Me want.  *cough cough*

• I was invited to the Brooklyn Blogfest the other week but was unable to attend as I A) Had to attend someone’s book release party and B) It was in Brooklyn.  Distant distant mythical Brooklyn.  Illustrator Melanie Hope Greenberg went instead and reports accordingly.

• From Cynopsis Kids:

Nehst Studios , a film production/financing/ distribution company, has acquired the movie rights to the Matt Christopher sports book series in a deal with publisher Little, Brown Books fro Young Readers .  Studio head Larry Meistrich is developing films based on the books, beginning with titles The Kid Who Only Hit Homers and The Basket Counts .  Ari Friedman and Meistrich will produce the films, with Wayne Chesler set to direct and write the screenplays.

I guess they just don’t do that many sports movies for kids.  Otherwise I’d think this was a no-brainer.

• I’m sort of loving this new blog The Worst Review where authors get to vent about various bad reviews, professional and otherwise.  It presents a nice mix of adult, YA, and children’s books.  There’s an interesting one from Lisa Yee about the very first review she ever got for Millicent Min, Girl Genius (her very first book ever) and it was a lousy misspelled Amazon one.  Thanks to Omnivoracious for the link.

• 100 Scope Notes has compiled invaluable information in how to use the library-based comic strip Unshelved as a booktalking tool all on its own.  In Using ‘Unshelved’ in Your Library the post has an amazing listing of every booktalk strip e’er done.  From Owly by Andy Runton to Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell.  Magnificent piece.

• Missed this one the first time around.  From Jezebel: A Glossary of Slang Terms Inspired by the Ladies of Children’s Literature.  Granger Danger sounds like yet another Harry Potter rock band name, though.  Either that or the world’s most awesome TV show.  Thanks to The Longstockings for the link.

• The good news: You can add your blog to the Kindle, just so long as it has an RSS feed.  The bad news: Your blog would have to charge readers to read it.  Lame!  Here I get all excited about possibly reaching my readership in a new way and then they pull these for-profit shenanigans.  FYI, Bookninja said the same thing but far better than I ever could. Thanks to Galleycat for the info.

• Daily Image:

And what blog post could possible be complete without a trip to the world’s coolest children’s bookstore?

Thanks to American Libraries Direct for the link.

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