So this week I'm finally starting to feel better, but instead of having time to catch up, I've been swamped planning a friend's bridal shower for this Saturday, and doing a ton of agent research. And I just realized I, uh, have no synopsis to send to said agents. Better get on that...

Anyway, I've got a bunch of things I wanted to mention, so here goes:

- My "Readerly/Writerly Influences" contest is still going on here until midnight (Eastern time) June 15, so get your entries in! Two free books to the winner.

- The wonderful Jen, aka wldhrsjen3, has posted a very interesting question for adult readers of YA . What do you think makes a good book?

- I've got a great list of people lined up to interview this summer! But as I was writing out my interview questions, I realized I was only asking things I was curious about, and well, I'm hoping more people than just me will read the answers! So what do you want to know about these fantastic people? Here's a list of those that have thus far agreed to the interviews:
Tiffany Trent,
author of the Hallowmere series beginning with In the Serpent's Coils
Karen Mahoney,
LJ's own kaz_mahoney, whose first published short story will be out this summer in The Eternal Kiss
Emily Adamo,
creator of the webcomic "Fun in Jammies"
Sarah Prineas,
author of The Magic Thief and The Magic Thief: Lost
Carrie Jones,
author of Need, Girl, Hero, Tips on Having a Gay (ex)Boyfriend and Love (and Other Uses for Duct Tape)
Amie Rose Rotruck,
aka R. D. Henham, author of Bronze Dragon Codex
Hillary Homzie,
author of the Alien Clones series and the upcoming Things Are Gonna Get Ugly
A. LaFaye,
winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical fiction for Worth, her newest novel Water Steps is out now!
Stephanie Burgis,
author of the upcoming YA Regency fantasy trilogy The Unladylike Adventures of Kat Stephenson, beginning with Book One: An Improper Magic (2010)


So if you have any questions for those listed above, please leave them in the comments! I might not get all of them in the interviews, but I will certainly do my best. (I'm going to try and ask a few more people, but getting sick kinda threw off my groove, so if I get anyone else, there will be a similar post for questions for them.)

I think that's all for now... Don't forget to enter, discuss and question! :)