Happy News Comes in Threes

Well this is probably old news by now but I couldn't just let it go unspoken:

Steph Su Reads has won the Best Written Book Blog award for BBAW 2010!

I can't even express how crazy this is. All I can say is: thank you. Also: I'm sorry I wasn't able to participate in BBAW-related posts, memes, and events. (SCHOOLWORK!!!!!!!!). But... thank you. I'm honored. I'm humbled. I have no idea how the heck I can live up to such an award. I guess all I can do is keep on writing.

Next, I'm excited to announce that I am to be a Round II judge in the YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Panel for the 2010 Cybils. (Check out the complete list of all the cool and talented judges here.) I've never participated in Cybils before, so I am a little nervous about how it will go, but also definitely positively anticipating the experience. I look forward to reading the shortlisted books come January, so don't forget to nominate books for the award starting in a few weeks!

And finally (and this is so cool, at least for me), one of my reviews has been blurbed and will be published! My review of The Iron King by Julie Kagawa is being blurbed for a full-page color ad that Harlequin TEEN is running in October's BookPage newsletter. If you don't know, BookPage is the free monthly newsletter that you can find in many public libraries. They feature a lot of different genres but I always enjoy browsing it and being intrigued by books out of my normal reading zone that I would never have known about had it not been for the newsletter. The ad is going to look something like this:

(You can click to enlarge, I think. My quote is in the bottom left corner.)

Doesn't that look so cool?!? To the best of my knowledge, I have never had my reviews blurbed and published before in actual print, so this is really squee-worthy for me. I'm definitely going to be picking up my copy of the October BookPage now!