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Anyone want to swap blog interviews?

Started Oct. 15, 2008

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Started Oct. 10, 2008

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Started this discussion. Last reply by Just One More Book! Children's Literature & Literacy Podcast Oct. 7, 2008.

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At 6:58am on May 22, 2009, BONNIE WAYNE said…: Just thought you should know Babette Gutherie should NOT be on this site! Is there a way to get rid of her. Why do people do this?????

At 6:29am on May 22, 2009, Cheryl Vanatti said…: Another spammer made it in: Babette Gutherie. (This one is pornographic in nature too)

At 2:58am on March 31, 2009, Mary Lee said…: I assume you'll be getting rid of this spammer member, Keriann Payne? Thanks.

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What's the name of your blog?: Children's Writing Web Journal

What's the URL to your blog?: http://write4kids.com/blog

Are you a....: Editor, Publishing Professional

The lady in the picture.....

The lovely woman next to me in my profile picture is my wife, Laura Backes. Laura's probably better known in the kids lit community than I am, and with good reason. She founded Children's Book Insider, wrote Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read (Random House), co-founded the Children's Authors Bootcamp, has written for Writer's Digest and The Writer and has critiqued thousands of manuscripts.

I, on the other hand, make a really good jambalaya.

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Hey Guys, Jon here.....

Just stopping by to clean up some spam.

Months ago, I created this site and "released it into the wild" wondering if it would take. Looks like it has! Nice job, everyone...

Since I'm fairly crazed with my new site and some other new projects, would anyone be interested in taking over as administrator? There's really nothing to it as the site runs itself. Just come in and delete members who are here to spam. I've had to do that twice in about a year! But a more engaged person would also be able… Continue

Posted on May 22, 2009 at 12:46pm —

A quiz for children's writers: How Do YOU Define Success?

This was an ezine/blog post I recently wrote that has generated some nice feedback. My goal was to get people away from the "I've got to sell my book to a major press and make lots of money or else I'm a failure" mode of thinking. If you like it, feel free to use it. You can use the whole thing, or just pull out the quiz part. Up to you.....

How Do YOU Define Success?