Somewhere a Boy and His Bear Will Always be Blogging

[steepholm]

Today was my last ABBA blog. I've been doing it once a month since it began in 2008, so it's a bit of a wrench. I think I've missed my monthly slot on maybe three occasions: once because I plain forgot, once for illness (that was last summer), and once because of pressure of work. Not bad, over a decade.

Sometimes I've had a bit of a panic about what write in the days up to the 11th of the month, but something's always bubbled to the top. All the same, it takes time to write it, and from the beginning of this month I've taken on Chief Editorship of Children's Literature in Education, so I felt that one of my commitments had to go.

There's also the fact that it's a blog written by children's writers, and I've not had anything published for children in five years.

Anyway, here for my convenience and your possible pleasure are some of my favouriter entries:

Neat, Pray, Shove
Two is the Beginning of the End.
"T" is for Tiger
Introducing the Amazing, Patented Title Generator
Sir Gradgrind and the Great Amphibium; or, a Peripatetic Defence of Fantasy
Ridiculously Bestselling
Recommending Books for Grown-ups
From The Children's Writers' Songbook

Comments

[colorwheel]

Chief Editorship of Children's Literature in Education! my word! mazel tov!!

icon chosen as an ode to your ABBA theme today. which, i had to remind myself once again, has nothing to do with swedish pop.

[steepholm]

Thank you! I shall try to be a credit to the office.

I think back in the days when we were brainstorming possible names for the blog, I hazarded "An Awfully Blog Adventure", and it got tweaked a bit - whether or not by a Swedish pop fan I couldn't possibly say.

[colorwheel]

hee hee!

(oh, in case you don't know the icon pic, it's "when i grow up" from matilda.)

[jadelennox]

What CW said!

[poliphilo]

Thank you. I'm enjoying these.

BTW: my titles are The Blue Moon Voyage and Fancying Wag (which I don't think belongs in the children's section at all.)

[steepholm]

Perhaps YA, then! But The Blue Moon Voyage sounds delightful.

[sovay]

All the same, it takes time to write it, and from the beginning of this month I've taken on Chief Editorship of Children's Literature in Education, so I felt that one of my commitments had to go.

Congratulations!