…and summer still dragging up bad puns. C’est la vie.
Wow, how many years have we been doing this now? Four? Five? Well, either way, it’s once again time for the Summer Blog Blast Tour, where fifteen or twenty bloggers get together for a week to interview their favorite children’s literature authors and illustrators. Twice a year this small segment of what we term the “kidlitosphere” celebrates celebrate story in all its manifold permutations, and renew our love of books — and give everyone some great books to chase down for their summer reading projects.
This project is a lot of work — it takes getting past one’s reflex shyness to approach an author or their agent, it takes reading their work deeply enough to ask intelligent questions that they’ve not already heard fifteen times, and it takes a huge amount of coordination for Colleen (who is made of Awesome and Woot with sprinklings of Spreadsheet, probably) to get the interviews set up and spread out and linked each day. It’s a labor of love, though. I really love stories — they’ve shaped my life, they’ve saved my sanity, and they’re just the larger part of what makes me, me.
Come be a part of the stories. The official schedule is up at Chasing Ray, and I hope you drop by!
This is my third reading of this entry and I JUST now caught the pun; more coffee is obviously needed.