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Class of 2K8: Celebrating new authors, new titles
March 7, 2008
I discovered Class of 2K8 through an LM_NET post from Naomi Bates this morning.
Class of 2K8 is reader-focused site, aimed at librarians, booksellers and teachers, as well. It currently features 27 new middle grade and young adult novels from 27 debut authors who represent such major publishers as: Harcourt, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Random House.
Attractive, media-rich, and 2.0ish, the site features cover art, downloadable discussion and teacher guides, blogs, video trailers, links to author sites, and a handy widget for embedding on your own site.
The collaborative marketing and publicity effort is a very cool way to focus attention on those titles and authors we'd be slow to discover on our own. Although, I somehow missed it, the effort was inspired by the success of last year's Class of 2k7 .
The press release explains the challenge of matching readers with new titles:
It's been said that everyone has at least one book inside, waiting to be written. Yet first books often sink faster than an anvil without water wings. Twenty-eight energetic children's book authors have banded together to help each other stay afloat in the turbulent seas of publishing.
The site also notes that its participating authors are available for school and library visits, signings, readings, conferences, panel discussions, and book festivals.
Posted by Joyce Valenza on March 7, 2008 | Comments (2)
