Comments on: Send me your conference ideas

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:33:37 +0000

I’d love to talk censorship in kidslit…especially after the whole scrotum thing. And I love the idea of reader’s advisory for the tween set.

By: adrienne

adrienne — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:46:47 +0000

I don’t know when people are flying in, but I’ll be in Chicago a couple days early and was thinking it might be fun to get some folks together to do something along the lines of eating pizza and going to Improv Olympic or something on Friday night. (Last time I went to an IO show, I laughed myself right into an asthma attack, which was GREAT! I’d love to do it again; that’s what inhalers were made for!)

By: bj

bj — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:39:04 +0000

Aw, Annette, make me feel bad, why don’tcha?

You’ll just have to come with Robin to NYC someday, and we’ll all get to run away from a raid together while buying knockoffs at an illegal shop in Chinatown. Or something.

By: annette

annette — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:42:19 +0000

bj, i too am a civilian, actually MORE of a civilian than youself and I’M going, and i was kinda hopin’ we’d be roomies (sigh). think of the sad sight, poor little me, alone, on the train, going to the zoo and art institute and frank llyod wright’s house, all by myself (sigh)–can’t wait!

By: robin

robin — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:40:58 +0000

That’s okay, BJ. Except for the root canal thing.

By: bj

bj — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:31:09 +0000

When this was a bunch of crazy people getting together for a potluck dinner it sounded cool, and possibly even worth a road trip.

No offense, folks, but to me, a person whose only connection to kidlit is having a run lately on website design jobs for kidlit/YA authors, this whole thing sounds about as appetizing as a root canal. I don’t even go to conferences in my OWN industry.

I’m now a definite no.

I hope y’all have fun.

By: Alkelda

Alkelda — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:56:28 +0000

Hey! What about inviting Debbie Reese to be a keynote speaker? She blogs, and she’s right in Chicago:

http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

By: annette

annette — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:08:36 +0000

are we all clear that “macrame” is code word for “other”?

By: robin

robin — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:37:33 +0000

Thanks for clarifying, Sheila!

Patrick, I’ve been a moo many times in my life. It’s not so bad.

By: Sheila Ruth

Sheila Ruth — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:18:52 +0000

Actually, Sheila is my first name and Ruth is my last name (married name, actually). Like Babe Ruth (no relation). A lot of people get mixed up, and some people just call me Ruth, so I pretty much answer to either. But you can just call me Sheila.