Authors Among Us: Librarians as Children’s Writers
A list of authors of children’s and young adult books who are librarians. The list includes those who have been published, those with forthcoming first books, authors of other children’s material, and authors who are not yet published. Fascinating.

2003 SFWA(R) Preliminary Nebula Awards Ballot
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have announced the nominees for the Nebula Awards. The awards will be presented April 15-18.

Let’s (Not) Get It On: Girls and Sex in Young Adult Literature
This article from VOYA is getting a lot of attention on children’s literature lists (it appears online as a pdf file, so you will need Adobe Acrobat to read it.) The article demonstrates the lack of positive sexual situations for girls in modern teen novels. Sadly, no one on the lists has been able to come up with many examples of positive sexual encounters either. It seems that there is an agenda to keep girls from thinking of sex as anything but a burden or worse a desperate situation. Boys are seen as constantly wanting sex and girls as the defenders of their virtue. What does this say about the novels that we all consider cutting edge? Where are the novels that would definitively destroy the standard that teenage female sexual desire is forbidden? Hopefully they will be written and published soon.