Month at the Museum, here I come!

Well, you know.  Maybe.

Yes.  I sent my MATM application¹ out today, so wish me luck²!

You know that the Science World totally needs a little KidLit-izing, right?  I could bring in a Whole New Audience!  An Army of YA Lit Nerdfighters to Explore the Science!

Ahem.

I have to say:  When I was working on my application, I had A Big Thought.  There should be way more book events set at museums. 

Think about this example:  People could go to the Science Storms exhibit at the MSI AND attend a reading/Q&A/signing by/with Susan Beth Pfeffer for Life As We Knew It (and companions)!  If marketed to the right audiences, it'd have awesome potential for crossover -- bringing the fiction to the science lovers, and the science to the fiction lovers.  (Not that there isn't crossover already, but you know what I mean.  Expaaaaaaanding the borders.)

Or Scott Westerfeld could go and read from Peeps at a museum with a parasite exhibit!

Susan Juby could go to a cookery museum with Getting the Girl!

Or... you get my drift.  It could be cool.

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¹My application essay is awesome, and I was happy with my short answers.  We took my photo at the end of a humid day, so my hair had reached maximum frizz and makes me look like a crazy person, but, it is what it is.  My video... well, my video got completed, which is something -- even if I did use the word 'so' like, fifteen thousand times.  But, hey -- I use the word 'so' on a pretty regular basis anyway.  SO that's okay.  (Ho ho ho!)  Even if I don't make it past the first round, I'm proud that I actually pulled it all together and applied!

²And feel free to do a bit of campaigning for me on Twitter -- @msichicago and/or hashtag #matm.  (I am, of course, @bkshelvesofdoom.)