The Wife and Me: Having Consumed Wine.

Welcome to Stupid Blog Name.  This is the very first post.

There are a lot of great blogs covering YA and kidlit.  I’ll link to them all once we get this thing completely up and running.  But I see this blog going in a slightly different direction.  I want to bring together contributors from all ends of the business — writers, editors, agents, publicists — on the one hand, and some actual, living, breathing kid writers on the other.

I hope to talk about serious things in an unserious way.  But we’ll balance that off by talking about unserious things in an even less serious way.  Occasionally, when there’s simply no other option, we’ll try and have an intelligent discussion.

We’ve already assembled an amazing list of contributors, all chomping (Champing?  One of the editors will tell me.) at the bit, dying for the chance to work for free and pour their hearts and souls into this blog.   And by chomp/champing I of course mean that they’ve all reluctantly agreed to do it as long as it’s not too hard.

Stupid Blog Name is owned and operated by me, Michael Grant, and my wife and frequent co-author, Katherine (K.A.) Applegate. I’ll contribute every now and then.  Katherine will contribute whenever I cajole her into it.

We also have, in no particular order, author Carol Snow; from Firebrand Literaray, agent MIchael Stearns;  from Simon and also Schuster, editor Mark McVeigh; from Books of Wonder in NYC, bookseller Peter Glassman; from Shrinking Violet, Mary and Robin; from the Book Muncher and remaining anonymous the Book Muncher; from Egmont UK Alistair Spalding; and, if I can ever figure out what I did with her email, the Story Siren; and last but not least, Meg Cabot.

I don’t know, I guess she’s some kind of writer or whatever.

So, some housekeeping:  this isn’t an off-the-rack blog design, The Boy built it.  We may have the occasional glitch.  We’ll have links up in those big blank boxes to the right as soon as the various contributors send me some art.  We will put a blogroll up.  We’ll have a big contributors page, detailing the details of our various contributors.

We expect we’ll kind of suck at the start and get gradually better.

Hang in there with us as we work together to inform, amuse, entertain, um. . . did I already say inform?  Hmmm.  Inform, amuse, entertain . . . Oh, and use our assembled might to dominate the world of YA lit, crush our many (many) enemies and destroy all who would oppose us.  Yeah, that was it.