Best of the Middle Grade Blogs: May 20

I hate waiting. I'm not good at hurry up and wait. Thankfully, I have your blogs to distract me. What I wish I was listening to kick start Friday:

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

What I'm actually listening to. Don't judge me. You know it's a sweet Friday song. Don't fight it.

What song gets you in the mood for Friday?

My Fave Middle Grade Blog Posts for This Week

Industry, Inspiration, and Market

• The Epic Post on Trends (YA & MG) @ Author/Agent Mandy Hubbard.
• New Releases of F & SF for Teens and Kids (May) @ Charlotte's Library.
• Ask the Expert Series: Interview with an 8th Grader @ Literary Rambles.
• How Can We Reach Them? @ MG Mafioso.
• It's All About the Audience @ Write4Kids!
• YA Exhaustion @ Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.
• Sherrie Petersen on the Magic Rejection Number @ Adventures in Children's Publishing.
• Blogger Friends: Please Be Sharers! @ Ink Spells.
• Nathan Bransford's Blog Directory (woo hoo) @ Nathan Bransford.

Crafting

• Wordcount Dracula @ Jennifer Represents.
• Putting on Airs @ Kidlit.
• How Well Do You Know Your Character? @ Project Mayhem.
• S is for Sterotypes: Are Your Characters Really Unique? @ That's Another Story.
• Interiority vs Telling @ Kidlit.
• Revision--Shannon Style @ Shannon Whitney Messenger.
• Examining Rewriting: step 1 @ Writer's Ally.
• Editing, Rewriting, and Gutting Fish--Not Much Difference @ Whimsy, Writing, & Reading.

Interviews

• Classroom Connections: Carole Estby Dagg @ Caroline by line.
• Erin E. Moulton @ From the Mixed Up Files...
• 7 Questions for Barbara Dee @ Middle Grade Ninja.

Reviews

• MMGM: The Goose Girl @ Shannon Whitney Messenger.
• MMGM: Riff Remember @ Book Dreaming.
• MMGM: The Invisible Order @ Just Deb.
• MMGM: Grey Griffins Giveaway @ My Brain on Books.
• MMGM: Belle Prater's Boy @ Novel and Nouveau.
• MMGM: The Secret of Platform 13 @ Night Writer.
• MMGM: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You @ Anita Laydon Miller's MG Blog.
• MMGM: Words in the Dust @ MG Mafioso.
• MMGM: Juniper Berry @ Kid Lit Frenzy.
• MMGM: ARC Giveaway @ Write About Now ( I want Ashes, Ashes)
• It's Raining Cupcakes...Yum @ Christine Fonseca.
• Gossip from the Girls' Room @ Picture This.
• The Midnight Gate by Helen Stringer @ Charlotte's Library.
• Troubletwisters by Garth Nix and Sean Williams @ The Write Path.

Other Round Ups

• Sunday's MG S & SF Round Up @ Charlotte's Library.

Still want more writing links? Go read my other white meat round up at The Writing Bug.