Book Trailer tips, awards and scissors

• Tips for book trailers.
• Men more likely to share than women – online, at least.
• Highlights of the history of science fiction literature for kids.
• Kindle most appropriate for women?
  “I think it’s fascinating the way that the author of that post connects (rightly I suspect) the
  marketing of Kindle to women (though the links are loose, I think chicklit/”pop fiction” is sort of the ideal material for this sort of device) rather than to the typical (male) geeky early adopter types.”
• Can links be defamatory?
• Excuses or Reasons?
• 30 Second Pitches
• Fuse #8’s Half-way Point Newbery & Caldecott Predictions
• Sara is playing with scissors.
• The Boston-Globe Horn Book Awards

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