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\nThe Cybil Awards<\/a>, for those who don’t know, determine the best publications of the previous year according to bloggers who review kiddie, middle grade, and young adult (YA) books. Winners are selected in ten categories.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the judges were announced, and I can now tell you that I’ve been selected to be one! I can’t begin to explain how excited I am about this. But let’s say it’s like Christmas morning when you’re standing in front of all your wrapped presents.<\/p>\n

I am serving on the young adult fiction panel<\/a>* (my first choice!), which includes all fiction aimed at older teens except for fantasy and science fiction. That has its own panel.<\/p>\n

I’ll be reading the first round nominees (the longlist, if you will), which come from the public starting Oct. 1. (Don’t worry. I’ll remind you.) The chair estimates we’ll each have to tackle 75 books in the next three months, so I’m hoping no one was looking forward to homemade Christmas presents this year. By the end, we’ll have winnowed 200ish books down to a short list (countable on two hands), which we’ll exhaustedly hand off to the second round panel.<\/p>\n

I’m particularly excited because the group of people I am working with seem really nice and knowledgeable, and their blogs offer a wide variety of book reviews to peruse. I was aware of several of them, but most are new to me.<\/p>\n

These are the folks I’ll be reading with directly:
\n<\/p>\n

Round 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leila Roy 
Bookshelves of Doom<\/a> 
@bkshelvesofdoom<\/a><\/p>\n

\nSarah Gross
<\/strong>The Reading Zone
<\/a>@thereadingzone<\/a><\/p>\n

\nKellie Tilton 
The Re-Shelf<\/a>  
@thereshelf<\/a> <\/p>\n

\nWilliam Polking 
Guys Lit Wire<\/a>  
@Polking<\/a><\/p>\n

\nClementine Bojangles
Early Nerd Special<\/a> 
@clemmybojangles<\/a><\/p>\n

\nKendall Kulper 
<\/strong>Blogging for YA<\/a>
@Kendall_Kulper<\/a><\/p>\n

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And these are the people who determine the ultimate winner:<\/p>\n

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Round 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maureen Kearney 
Confessions of a Bibliovore<\/a>  
@mosylu<\/a><\/p>\n

\nMaureen Eichner 
<\/strong>By Singing Light<\/a> 
@elvenjaneite<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAdrianne Russell 
<\/strong>The Writer's Republic<\/a>
@writersrepublic<\/a><\/p>\n

\nMichelle Castleman 
The Hungry Readers<\/a>  
@ShelTheProf<\/a><\/p>\n

\nJessica Silverstein 
Reading on the F Train<\/a>
@SilversteinELA<\/a><\/p>\n

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Without a doubt you will hear more about the Cybils in the weeks to come. I can’t wait!<\/p>\n

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*I know the Cybils site uses my real name, but let’s not go spreading it around, okay? Sprite I have been, and Sprite I remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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