1. Great pitch contest going on right now at SC WRITE. A wide variety of genres are accepted and the requirements are easy to master. Give it a try!

2. Colorado Humanities Book Awards Finalists Announced. You can find all of the nominees here, but I am of course interested in the Juvenile Literature category. Here are the three lucky finalists:

Grave Images by Jenny Goebel (Reviewed on this blog earlier this year)

The Miner’s Cap by Ann N. Black

A Summer of Sundays by Lindsay Eland

Good luck to all. I’m off to the garage now to find the snow shovel. Yep… 70’s yesterday and up to 6 inches of the white stuff today. Springtime in the Rockies!