Month at the Museum, here I come!

Well, you know.  Maybe.

Yes.  I sent my MATM application¹ out today, so wish me luck²!

You know that the Science World totally needs a little KidLit-izing, right?  I could bring in a Whole New Audience!  An Army of YA Lit Nerdfighters to Explore the Science!

Ahem.

I have to say:  When I was working on my application, I had A Big Thought.  There should be way more book events set at museums. 

Think about this example:  People could go to the Science Storms exhibit at the MSI AND attend a reading/Q&A/signing by/with Susan Beth Pfeffer for Life As We Knew It (and companions)!  If marketed to the right audiences, it'd have awesome potential for crossover -- bringing the fiction to the science lovers, and the science to the fiction lovers.  (Not that there isn't crossover already, but you know what I mean.  Expaaaaaaanding the borders.)

Or Scott Westerfeld could go and read from Peeps at a museum with a parasite exhibit!

Susan Juby could go to a cookery museum with Getting the Girl!

Or... you get my drift.  It could be cool.

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¹My application essay is awesome, and I was happy with my short answers.  We took my photo at the end of a humid day, so my hair had reached maximum frizz and makes me look like a crazy person, but, it is what it is.  My video... well, my video got completed, which is something -- even if I did use the word 'so' like, fifteen thousand times.  But, hey -- I use the word 'so' on a pretty regular basis anyway.  SO that's okay.  (Ho ho ho!)  Even if I don't make it past the first round, I'm proud that I actually pulled it all together and applied!

²And feel free to do a bit of campaigning for me on Twitter -- @msichicago and/or hashtag #matm.  (I am, of course, @bkshelvesofdoom.)

Comments

[Apaperbackwriter.blogspot.com]

I am so excited for you!
I read your original post on this and went to the website. Unfortunately for me, it's during the school year, so there's no freakin' way I could take that time off. Thus, I am cheering for you.

[Laura]

Yay! Good luck! I SO wanted to apply, but didn't think I could swing the time off work, etc. I'll live vicariously through you. *fingers crossed*

[tanita]

I really do hope you get to do this -- it would be SUCH a fun experience to blog and you could maybe make those literary/museum pairing suggestions to someone who might listen.

[Leila]

Thanks, guys -- though after seeing some of the videos that other people submitted, I rather think that my chances are minimal.

Ah, well! Like I said, I'm just glad that I got my crap together in time to send it out!