Yes! I'm skipping like a skipper because of several most-excellent websites/blogs links I've found in my Bookmarks bar. I like to weed it every now and then and I always find a few sites that have me scratching my noggin over why I bookmarked them in the first place, but most are wonderful to visit again. And some are just too fabby not to share.

So here's a great link to Blue Rose Girls, a shared blog where some "children's book professionals talk books ... and other things". This entry, posted on Feb 15, about the many rejections some popular fiction got before the big P (publication), by Libby Koponen, touched my tender psyche: http://bluerosegirls.blogspot.com/2012/01/when-is-it-time-to-give-up-on-ms.html

Here's a link to Ellen Jackson's post on the same subject, and I have to show it to you because I love how positive it is: http://www.ellenjackson.net/dealing_with_rejection_61476.htm I hasten to add that I am not on a rejection binge or beating myself blue with my weighty rejection binder. There's just nothing more uplifting than hearing that rejectors make mistakes and may be suffering regret, which only seems right and fair.

And this is a site I found yesterday and just had to share, coz I'm a ver, ver sharing person, http://www.fromthemixedupfiles.com/  I've known about this MG author site for ages, in fact, since the founder, Elissa Cruz, mentioned it on Verla Kay's Blueboard forum. You do know about the Blueboards, don't you? It's a treasure chest absolutely brimming with priceless information, connection and lurve for all juvenile fiction writers. Juvenile fiction writers and grown-ups are always welcome:  http://www.verlakay.com/boards/index.php

Now I can skip off and create mayhem for my MC. Writing is such a satisfying occupation, isn't it? ;)