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It’s a blast–a summer blog blast tour!\u00a0 As a fan of America’s Next Top Model (yes, you can judge me now), I can’t help but think of New Cover Girl Lash-Blast Mascara when I hear the words “Summer Blog Blast Tour.”\u00a0 But I should really put some new association to those words, because on Wed-niz-day, I am going to appear on said tour!\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 That’s right.\u00a0 Writer nirvana.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Summer blog blast tour consists of some of kidlit’s most thoughtful, provocative bloggers interviewing writers.\u00a0 I’m pasting the line-up below so you can see that I mean what I say: some serious pith will be offered up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The cherry on the sundae–the lengthen of the lashes–is that I got to answer interview questions from my much-esteemed grad school friend Gwenda of Shaken and Stirred <\/a>fame.\u00a0 (Doesn’t her blog have the best name?\u00a0 I wish I had a cool last name so I could give this blog something equally rich, but sadly, there’s nothing cool about–oh, wait.\u00a0 I do <\/em>have an extremely cool last name.\u00a0 But all cognates–Leader of the Pack; Follow the Leader–sound obnoxious when applied to myself.)\u00a0<\/p>\n I so digress!\u00a0 My point is, I hope you’ll stop by these blogs and read the interviews throughout the week.\u00a0 And for goodness’ sake, don’t be a lurker!\u00a0 Comment to show the love!\u00a0 And thanks to Gwenda for looping me in on the coolness.\u00a0 I can feel my eyelashes growing longer and thicker already!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Monday, May 17<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Kate Milford<\/a> @ Chasing Ray<\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mac Barnett<\/a> @ Fuse #8\/ School Library Journal<\/a><\/p>\n Hazardous Players<\/a> @ Finding Wonderland<\/a><\/p>\n Malinda Lo<\/a> @ Shelf Elf<\/a><\/p>\n Barbara Dee<\/a> @ Little Willow<\/a><\/p>\n Tuesday, May 18<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mary Jane Beaufrand at The Ya, Ya, Yas \u00a0Wednesday, May 19<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Michael Trinklein at Chasing Ray \u00a0Thursday, May 20<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0Matthew Reinhart at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast Friday May 21<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Julia Hoban at Chasing Ray \u00a0 It’s a blast–a summer blog blast tour!\u00a0 As a fan of America’s Next Top Model (yes, you can judge me now), I can’t help but think of New Cover Girl Lash-Blast Mascara when I hear the words “Summer Blog Blast Tour.”\u00a0 But I should really put some new association to those words, because on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotion-of-self-and-others","category-writerly-monday","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRita Williams-Garcia at Fuse Number 8
\nJennifer Hubbard at Writing & Ruminating
\nCharise Mericle Harper at Shelf Elf
\nHolly Schindler at Little Willow<\/p>\n
\nNick Burd at Fuse Number 8
\nSarah Darer Littman at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
\nTom Siddell at Finding Wonderland
\nJessica Leader (that’s me!) at Shaken & Stirred<\/p>\n
\nJenny Boylan at Fuse Number 8
\nLisa Mantchev at Writing & Ruminating
\nTara Kelly at Shaken & Stirred
\nDonna Freitas at Little Willow<\/p>\n
\nStacy Kramer at A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy
\nNancy Bo Flood at Finding Wonderland
\nPaolo Bacigalupi\u00a0at Shaken & Stirred
\nSarah Kuhn at Little Willow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"