Eric Luper's Random Musings

For those of you who have been following my blog, I have started a new and occasional feature here called a "Google Ping." I am going to post a children's author's name over and over again to see how long it takes them to either:

a) Google themself and find me

or

b) find out through the grapevine that they have been pinged.

We'll see who is the fastest of all the authors to answer the Google Ping.

John Green, author of An Abundance of Katherines is the next up.



Here we go:

John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green, John Green.

And the clock has begun at 3:52pm EST on 5/2/2007.

By the way, I have been emailed off-blog about what a "ping" is. The best I can explain is that it is a submarine term that relates to sonar and sounds bouncing back. If someone has a resource that explains this, feel free to post it in comments or send to me so I can post it.

The winners of the 2006 L.A. Times Book Awards were announced last night. They went though all of this boring stuff before they got to the young adult winner. In fact, young adult was the absolute last category listed. That blows. I mean isn't YA lit more important that Biography or Current Events? Okay, maybe I'm biased. Anyway, here were the finalists:

Young Adult Fiction:
M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)

Coe Booth, Tyrell (Push / Scholastic)

John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (Dutton Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)

Meg Rosoff, Just in Case (Wendy Lamb Books / Random House Children's Books)

Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial Books / Penguin Young Readers Group)

And the winner is........

COE BOOTH for Tyrell. I don't know Ms. Booth, but I do know Lisa Graff, author of The Thing About Georgie (here's my blog review) and one of the other Longstocking authors. This bunch of female blogging MG/YA writers has found tons of success these past few years. You can read all about their thoughts, ideas, and accomplishments here. This is one of the blogs I follow and I enjoy it a whole heck of a lot.

Congratulations Ms. Booth (may I call you Coe?) and all of the other fabulous authors who were recognized!