DirectRooms.com announces the Somerset College Writers Festival in the Gold Coast region of Australia at Mudgeerabe. The event takes place from 16th to 18th March 2011 following the International Conference of Librarians and Teachers.

The Mom's Choice Awards has named Just Ask Baby among the best in class. MCA is an awards program that recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media, products and services.

Mom's Choice Awards honors The Woman's Field Guide to Exceptional Living as a Silver Award Recipient. This makes the third national award for first time author, Corrie Woods, and reflects the big buzzing building about this little book.

If you're like most parents, your kids are suffering from a slight case of the back to school blues. Good news! Habana Outpost and Brooklyn Public Library have just the thing to get your kids exited about the new school year!

Cybils -- the only literary awards by bloggers -- is again accepting nominations from the public. This year, roughly 90 volunteer judges will cull through the lists to pick the year's best titles for children and teens.

Well with 2007 comes new beginnings starting with a brand new OSA NetworK started today on a new platform (SMF) and service, my many weeks in research and development and the information I wanted the new forum to be easy to use and as safe as possible.

More than 80 volunteers have wrapped up two rounds of judging in the first-ever Children's and Young Adult Bloggers Literary Awards (Cybils). Bloggers sought a balance between literary quality and "kid appeal" among the 482 titles nominated by the public.

Happy Tails - Hilarious Helpful Hints for Dog Owners, published by Paw Publishing, Inc. named as Finalist in the 21st Benjamin Franklin Awards from PMA, the Independent Book Publishers association in Recognition of Excellence in Independent Publishing.