Attention SCBWI Members

Don’t forget to cast your vote in this year’s SCBWI Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards! Voting ends March 15.

Here are the finalists for the California/Hawaii division:

• Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan ( HarperCollins Children’s Books)

• Tina Nichols Coury, Hanging Off Jefferson’s Nose: Growing Up On Mount Rushmore (Dial Books For Young Readers, Penguin Young Readers Group)

• Katherine Longshore, Gilt (Viking Children’s Books, Penguin Young Readers Group)

• Ginger Wadsworth, First Girl Scout, the Life of Juliette Gordon Low (Clarion)

• Melissa Wiley, The Prairie Thief (Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster)

You can see the other division finalists here. One Crystal Kite winner will be chosen for each division.

From the SCBWI website:

To cast a vote, go to your Member Home page, click on “See what’s going on in your region,”  then on the Crystal Kites tab. The list of the finalists listed below will be there and all you have to do to vote is click the button next to the desired title for your region. [Note: To get to the voting buttons, you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the finalist list.]

Please remember there is no campaigning of any kind for individual titles but you are encouraged to promote the awards in general using all social media! This includes but is not limited to blogging, tweeting or social networking of any kind.

Anyone participating in an individual voting campaign (promoting a specific title) will be disqualified. This is to ensure the votes are based purely on personal opinion.