Colleen's brainchild, the SBBT, is set to begin on Sunday.
For those of you who have somehow managed to miss the chatter, here's a teaser (from, of course, Chasing Ray):
Starting next Sunday, with an interview posted at Finding Wonderland with 2006 NBA finalist and Printz Award winner Gene Yang, there will be multiple blogs in the kidlitosphere conducting multiple interviews for the following week. We will average ten interviews a day with authors like Justine Larbalestier, Brent Hartinger, David Brin, Hilary McKay, Christopher Golden, Kazu Kibuishi, Chris Crutcher, Holly Black, Kirsten Miller and Shaun Tan. Between Yang's interview on Sunday and the last one with Justina Chen Headley on Saturday there will be over 50 author interviews posted. These authors include multiple genres (SF, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Drama), multiple formats (prose, graphic novel, manga) and for mutliple audiences (boys and girls, straight and gay). Many of the authors agreed to more than one interview although fans should not be worried - the bloggers were careful to make sure that different questions were asked each time. In the end we hope to provide a wealth of information about how these authors create, the kind of books they write and what they have to offer to new readers and long time fans.
My schedule is:
Tuesday, June 19th: Chris Crutcher
Wednesday, June 20th: Hilary McKay
Friday, June 22nd: Bennett Madison
When the SBBT begins, I'll be sure to give you a daily roundup of links.
Ooh, I love Hilary McKay! But just out of curiosity, how was all this set up? Did you simply dash off an email to her, explaining what was going on? Or did someone higher up arrange it all with publishers and publisicts?
Posted by: Charlotte | 14 June 2007 at 10:01 AM
I sent an email to the PR rep I work with at Simon & Schuster explaining what we were trying to do with the tour. He contacted Hilary and she agreed to one interview - and the questions were to be sent via the PR rep. I turned the whole thing over to Leila at that point as she is a huge fan and really wanted this one. All the PR reps I contacted were great - they did their best to get the authors we were looking for and got back to me with a response (postive or negative) very quickly.
When the authors had web sites I just contacted them direct and they were all great too.
Posted by: Colleen | 14 June 2007 at 03:18 PM
Oooooo... Hilary McKay... I can't wait!
Posted by: Jennie | 14 June 2007 at 07:25 PM
Another Hilary McKay fan, here to metaphorically jump up and down in thrilled-ness. (Not that I don't like Chris Crutcher, but it's actually pretty hard to find information on or commentary by McKay and her books are so intriguing.)
I don't know of Bennett Madison; am looking forward to finding out more.
Posted by: bookbk | 15 June 2007 at 10:01 AM