{"id":891,"date":"2007-09-15T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=891"},"modified":"2007-11-26T13:56:41","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T19:56:41","slug":"blogging-for-a-cure-an-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for a Cure: An Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/robert's snow1.JPG\" alt=\"Grace Lin image, used with permission in our May 2007 interview with her\">Hi, everyone. The response to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=886\">the recent post<\/a><\/strong> about our multi-blog effort to drive traffic to the upcoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfund.org\/eve\/event\/roberts-snow\/default.html\">Robert&#8217;s Snow<\/a><\/strong> online auctions was overwhelmingly positive. Whoa. THANK YOU to each and every blogger who posted about this and spread the word and\/or signed up to feature an illustrator. I especially want to thank those who posted about it, because I (Jules) haven&#8217;t had time to read all the posts yet, and I&#8217;m sure there were some lovely ones written. And I want to commend all the bloggers for being so patient and gracious about choosing folks. There was never once a moment of bickering over choosing one illustrator over another; not that I expected you all to be that way. Thanks for making it easy.<\/p>\n<p>As of this moment in which I&#8217;m composing this post (Friday evening), we have had approximately sixty children&#8217;s lit bloggers\/authors\/illustrators\/editors\/etc. (but all bloggers, of course) respond, wanting to feature snowflake-makin&#8217; illustrators, and some emails are still trickling in. Approximately 145 illustrators (of the 156 we were given) have been snatched up to be featured by bloggers. That leaves ten-ish illustrators left, whom I have no doubt will get snagged in no time flat. In other words, I really think we&#8217;ll get <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blaine.org\/jules\/illustrators.htm\">the entire list<\/a><\/strong> covered; there are more to come who have yet to finish their snowflakes, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-farber.org\/\">Dana-Farber<\/a><\/strong>, but even if this is all we get covered, that&#8217;s a lot. <\/p>\n<p>I am 99.9% sure I&#8217;ve gotten back to everyone, but if, by some chance, you emailed me and I missed getting back to you, oh please please do contact me again. And, if so, I apologize, but &#8212; again &#8212; the emails came pouring in. I am pretty darn sure I&#8217;ve crossed all i&#8217;s and dotted all t&#8217;s here, but I&#8217;m just saying, for the record . . .<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to one and all. We will keep our 7-Imp readers up-to-date on when exactly this will all be launched. Please be patient while we work out the details; obviously, organization is <em>key<\/em> here. If you are a blogger who will be participating, let me quickly say that you should have gotten a big &#8216;ol email about the entire event (an update of sorts &#8212; actually, a few emails by now), so if &#8212; for some reason &#8212; you did not receive it, let Jules (who promises to get back to middle-grade and YA reviews soon!) know asap at <strong>seventhings *at* blaine *dot* org<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As someone else put it, let it snow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, everyone. The response to the recent post about our multi-blog effort to drive traffic to the upcoming Robert&#8217;s Snow online auctions was overwhelmingly positive. Whoa. THANK YOU to each and every blogger who posted about this and spread the word and\/or signed up to feature an illustrator. 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