Put on your happy faces and dancing shoes ... it's almost time for Diana Wynne Jones March! Saturday is March 1st and the kickoff day for our third glorious year of celebrating the worlds and stories of this beloved author. Luckily (and sadly), part of the world now has her last novel to read. The rest of us will just have to make do with the wonderful books we already have.
I've decided that our main purpose this year is to simply spread the DWJ love and awareness far and wide so I've created a schedule for the month of features and prompts. I would love for everyone to participate as much as they would like on any social media site, including blogs, twitter, tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest. Just tag everything with #dwjmarch so we can find it! I've created a DWJMarch tagboard so that you can follow along with all of the hashtagged fun. There's also a new DWJ March tumblr which you can submit to and share from.
For the series/book highlights, I want to see mentions of the book, photos, summaries and thoughts. I've also designated one day a week as Fan Art Friday when you can share either your own fan art or pieces you've fallen in love with from other artists. I only ask that you link back to the original source and/or give the artist's name if it's not you.
March 19th will be Giveaway Day, when anyone who wants to can host a DWJ-related giveaway. Just come to my post on that day and leave a link or hashtag it.
I'm also hosting two read-alongs --
Enchanted Glass, with discussion on March 15 (so grab your copy now!) and
The Islands of Chaldea for those with a UK version of the book, with discussion on March 25. Hopefully my preordered copy arrives from Foyle's in time! If there's enough interest, we can have another read-along in April after the US release.
Here is the prompt/feature schedule by day:
- Show Us Your Collection
- Series Highlight: The Chronicles of Chrestomanci
- Favorite Main Character
- Book Highlight: Eight Days of Luke
- Favorite Book Cover
- Book Highlight: The Power of Three
- Fan Art Friday
- Book Highlight: The Time of the Ghost
- Series Highlight: Howl's Moving Castle
- Book Highlight: The Ogre Downstairs
- Favorite Supporting Character
- Book Highlight: Dogsbody
- Book Highlight: A Tale of Time City
- Fan Art Friday
- Read-Along Discussion: Enchanted Glass
- Series Highlight: Derk
- Favorite World
- Book Highlight: Archer's Goon
- GIVEAWAY DAY!
- Book Highlight: Fire and Hemlock
- Fan Art Friday
- Favorite Villain
- Series Highlight: The Dalemark Quartet
- Book Highlight: The Homeward Bounders
- Early Reader Discussion: The Islands of Chaldea
- Book Highlight: Black Maria (Aunt Maria)
- Favorite Book/Series
- Fan Art Friday
- Book Highlight: The Game
- Series Highlight: Deep Secret/The Merlin Conspiracy
- Event Wrap-Up
Use the next few days to gather your books and get ready to read and reread, take some photos, write some posts and make some art to celebrate the brilliance of Diana Wynne Jones. I look forward to seeing what everyone does in March!
Counting down to the celebration,
K
Counting down to the celebration,
K
Oh, fun!! We are going away for a week in March, but maybe I can find some time to do some of the prompts. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm fairly sure I'll be the only person doing all 31 prompts so please do just join in when you can! :)
DeleteOh boy oh boy oh boy!! I love DWJ March! I'll participate as much as I possibly can, though sadly I won't be able to get Chaldea until the US release.
ReplyDeleteYay! and boo. :( I know, they didn't time that US release very well as far as DWJ March goes. I wonder why that wasn't considered? ;)
DeleteI know! Publishers should pay more attention. :D
DeleteWhoa, maybe I am losing my mind. I could have sworn I'd commented on this post to say I AM SO EXCITED FOR DWJ MARCH. I have just this minute scheduled a post with a picture of all my DWJ books lined up together. Gosh, there are a lot of them (yet not nearly enough).
ReplyDeleteFantastic! I've already taken my picture too. :) And yes, it's a big but not big enough pile -- though I've bought three more books this month so it's getting there. Of course, this also means that my unread DWJ books list is going to shrink a bit more this month too. Le sigh.
DeleteAnd as soon as I'm done leaving this comment I'm going to go restart Howl's Moving Castle. NOW! :)
ReplyDeleteYippee!!
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