Writing+and+Writers+Page

=Writing and Writers Page!!! = =GREAT NEWS! A CONTEST FOR WRITERS OF YA AND MIDDLE GRADE BOOK! Click [|here] for more information (contest ends Jan. 31, 2010)  =  First, check out the Author Sites page on the LPS Library Homepage, found [|here.] Still haven't found what you're looking for? Try these sites:
 * **Author Websites**


 * [|Children's Literature Service]
 * [|CANSCAIP]
 * [|Kidsreads by Scholastic - Author List]
 * [|Author Yellow Pages]
 * [|Canadian Young Adult Fiction - Author List]
 * [|Carol Hurst's Author List]
 * [|Read Kiddo Read] (James Patterson's site for literacy)

Some of my current favourites:

[|JK Rowling] [|Kenneth Oppel] [|Eric Walters] [|Marina Cohen] [|Anita Daher] || ===Blogging about Writing === <span style="color: #2769e7; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Some of my favourite author and editor blogs:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Marsha Skrypuch] [|Libba Bray] [|Holly Black] [|Linda Gerber] [|KC Dyer] [|Anita Daher] [|Rose Holck] [|Diana Gabaldon] Meg Cabot [|Barry Goldblatt] <span style="color: #006ccf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (agent)

To find your favourite young adult author blogs, check this out! If you'd like to participate in an online discussion, or blog, about favourite YA or children's books yourself, join [|here]!

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<span style="color: #1968be; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|The Books and Writers Community] (longest running online writing group in the world) [|Verla Kay's Children's Writers and Illustrators Message Board] (known as "Blueboard") [|Y-Eh! Canadian Young Adult and Middle Grade Books Community] <span style="color: #006ccf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> (new and free!) [|The Writer's Union of Canada] (which subsidizes author visits, among other things) ||
 * Dan Bar-El's presentation at OLA Superconference 2009

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