rgz Newsflash: Gearing up to Rock the Drop!

As folks start spreading the word, emails are flying in about how YA lit lovers are going to ROCK THE DROP!





Beloved Emma Dryden is planning on dropping 8 YA novels around upper Manhattan, including Central Park!





Boing Boing is helping to spread the news. Thanks, Cory!


People are tweeting as the celebration gathers steam. Let's use #rockthedrop for our posts. Cool?


Rock on, readergirlz!

rgz Newsflash: Emma Dryden, drydenbks

I'm so excited to share with everyone, my editor/friend's new venture. Just featured at PW Children's Bookshelf, Emma, quintessential editor, says this:

drydenbks offers

* freelance editorial and creative services to children's book authors, illustrators, agents and publishers;

* workshops and presentations on subjects pertaining to the children's book industry;

* consultancy services to administer direction and advice to authors, illustrators, editors, students, and anyone seeking to break into or expand their presence in the children's publishing arena.

A venture that results from my twenty-five years experience editing and publishing children's books, drydenbks continues the work about which I am so passionate: To help define, enrich and craft children's book authors' and illustrators' work to make it viable for the current marketplace.

Please visit www.drydenbks.com and become a fan at www.facebook.com/drydenbks.

Here's a big rgz shoutout for her new beginning!

Newsflash: Kirkus hopes to continue!

Just pulled this from Emma Dryden's Facebook about a PW article. Woot!

"In an email to colleagues today, Kirkus Reviews managing editor and nonfiction editor Eric Liebetrau said the publication, which last month was said to be closing with staff leaving by the end of 2009, is working toward an arrangement with an acquiring company to continue publication."

Most excellent!