My Quiet Blog...

The 2010 Writer's Market is going out the door tomorrow, so I haven't had time to post this week (which, hopefully, you have noticed).

I hope you've all checked out the new (and much improved) SCBWI website and registered for the August conference.

I'll be back next week.

Check Out Stephanie Meyer on Good Morning America...

Toward the end, she talks about Writer's Market.

If only she would have said Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market...but that's quite a mouthful to get out on live TV.

Robert's Poem-A-Day Challenge for National Poetry Month...

April is National Poetry Month and to celebrate Robert Brewer (poet, Writer's Market editor, and Poetic Asides blogger) challenged himself to write a poem every day of the month--and he wants other poet's out there you to join him.

Robert kicked of his Poem-A-Day Challenge yesterday. The goal is to simply get poems on paper without worrying so much about quality as just doing the writing. For those who'd like to join the PAD Challenge but need a little kickstart, Robert is offering a poetry prompt each day on his blog. For more inspiration, view the comments on Poetic Asides posts and read the poem's submitted by poets who are participating in the Poem-A-Day Challenge.

If you're not a poet you can still celebrate National Poetry Month by reading poems (kids love em!). Here's an Amazon list of children's poetry books to give you some ideas--heavy on the Prelutsky, of course.