Subscription Based Children's Ebooks

Disney Digital Books launches with about 500 electronic children's books for ages 3 to 13.
http://disneydigitalbooks.go.com/

Highlights Fiction Contest 2010

Fiction based on a true story from your family. (postmarked between January 1 and January 31, 2010)
http://www.highlights.com/highlights-fiction-contest

CWIM 2011

Call for authors to be featured in the 2011 Children's Writers and Illustrators Market. (Deadline October 8, 2009)
http://cwim.blogspot.com/2009/09/official-call-for-debut-authors-for.html#links

New Agent

Teresa Kietlinski joins Prospect Agency.
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/New+Agent+Alert+Teresa+Kietlinski+Of+Prospect+Agency.aspx

Sydney Taylor Manuscript Award 2009

$1,000 award for manuscript by an unpublished author with Jewish content for readers aged 8 to 11 years (deadline December 15, 2009).
http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/awards/st_ms.htm

ShelfTalker

A Children's Bookseller's Blog.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266.html#360020036

Podcasts

The Just One More Book website contains podcasts about children's books plus weekly interviews with authors, illustrators and children's literature experts http://www.justonemorebook.com/

2010 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Writer Fellowship

$5,000 awarded to a middle grade or young adult writer. Nominations must be received between September 1, 2009 and January 14, 2010.
www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/281

Author Central

If your book is listed on Amazon, you can personalize an author page with picture, bio, and blog posts.
https://authorcentral.amazon.com/

Marketing Advice from an Editor

Molly ONeill, assistant editor, Katherine Tegen Books, gives specifc tips for marketing yourself and your book.
http://faeriality.blogspot.com/2009/08/marvelous-marketer-molly-oneill.html