Essential Reading!
I’m finally putting my rss feeds back together after 6 months of neglect – and I’m looking for your essential reads… old favourites and new spots I haven’t discovered yet.
No one asked for it, but here are some of my own essentials (taken from a list of 376+ feeds and in no particular order):
Very Hungry Caterpillar Blog (CBI’s own Mags Walsh)
Book Witch (The one and only)
Scamp (The Illustrators Guild)
Spinebreakers (Puffin’s phenomenal site)
Forbidden Planet Blog (Should need no introduction)
Renee French (Unforgettable)
Pub Rants (Super agent… or so I’m told)
Vulpes Libris (Those devilish book wolves)
Fidra Blog (Selling a book? Fidra knows the business)
Eoin Purcell (One man publishing encyclopaedia)
Sarah Webb (The lady who knows everything. And everyone!)
Book Smugglers (Where do they find the time to read so much?!)
Achockablog (Michael Thorn’s head is chockablock)
It Had Better Be Good (Yvonne makes the rest of us look bad)
Barry Hutchison (Proving that hard work pays off)
Crime Always Pays (One man, a whole lot of crime and a little lady)
First Three Chapters (Keeping me in touch with my fashionable side)
Carousel (News that goes round and round and round and round)
I know I’ve missed a load of great blogs on the list – a post for another day. So who do you read?
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well, the only one i’m reading that you mightn’t be aware of in your immense knowledge (barred the French ones) is strange maps (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/) which is a whole heap of fun and oddity.
Hey, I’m on there. Woo-hoo! Thanks for the link, David, although … ahem … you’ve spelled my surname wrong.
@ Juliette – Ooooh Strange Maps! Haven’t been there in a while…
@ Barry – Y’are of course up there. /whistles innocently/ What mis-spelling. I don’t know what you mean. Sorry!
Wow, I’m honoured!
Aaah, it must’ve been my eyes. My mistake… *cough*
Thanks for listing me. Much appreciated. I must do a post like this myself listing my own fave reads. Here’s a taster:
http://jamesandthebluecat.blogspot.com/
@Laura I’m relying on ye these days to keep me in the fashion loop… Though less likely to see me in skinny jeans.
@Barry No one need ever know…
Looking forward to yer own list now – never come across blue cat blog.
Big Beat From Badsville is a must read, but only after reading me, of course.
http://bigbeatfrombadsville.blogspot.com/
Thanks BW – of course it would ONLY be after reading you…
Jeepers, David, I wish you’d tell my brain that I know everything, it certainly does not agree with you this pm. But I have been very blessed – and do know lots of lovely people all right – your good self included. Prob because I’ve had rather a lot of different jobs, oh and I’m a sociable being and like ‘dos’. And most kiddi lit people are worth knowing!
SarahX
thrilled I made the list!
as for the must reads
Shelftalker (US children’s book shop blog) http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266.html?nid=3340
Annie West – Infrequent but always inspired
http://kickbollockandscramble.blogspot.com/
McSweeney’s – for the weird and the wonderful and because RSS is the only way to navigate their website!
and lastly for the moment –
Read Roger – The Horn Book’s Editor blog http://www.hbook.com/blog/
Thanks guys!
@VHC Clicking subscribe on ‘em all now!