One great thing about the YA community is that everyone is super supportive. We cheer each other on through Twitter and our blogs. We share our successes and disappointments over email and IM. When we finally get published, we like to spread the word. That’s what’s happening this week. Debut YA author Susan Dennard is travelling the blogosphere this week to support her novel Something Strange and Deadly, which will be published in July. But it’s January. Isn’t this a little early? Not if we have an ARC to give away! All this week, you can enter for a chance to be part of an ARC tour. For more information, check out Holly Dodson’s blog as she is the hostess extraordinaire. To learn more about Susan and her debut, be sure to check out the blog tour this week. You can find the schedule below. Monday: CONTEST on Holly Dodson’s blog Super Mom Writes Tuesday: a book review with Erinn on Something Else to Distract Me Wednesday: an interview with ME about what happens after you’ve sol...

We're a few days into the new year and, so far, it's looking slightly nicer than 2011. I'm still working out my goals for the new year, so that post will come later. Today is all about the blog's outlook for 2012. We'd love to hear your feedback on what we should do here. Please fill out the survey below and tell us what to can, what to continue, what to develop. A blog is only as strong as it's lurkers (and maybe it's bloggers). <p> </p>

Over the last few weeks, I've been finding it difficult to keep up with Twitter, Facebook, email, and even blogging. No matter how hard I try, I end up missing something and then feel guilty. Let's not even get into the fact that with my phone, I'm plugged in to social networking 24/7. After over seven years, I've finally got social media fatigue. What Is Social Media Fatigue? According to Technopedia , social media fatigue is when people grow overwhelmed with the time and energy spent maintaining and initiating all of these connections. (Yes, this can include people you know IRL that you only now communicate with through Facebook.) Writers are more prone to suffer this than the average bear. We constantly hear that we need to build our platform, interact with our writing community, and make ourselves visible. (That's on top of constantly honing our craft, reading, researching, and the million other things that make writers awesome.) Many of us are online late ...