There’s a new blog carnival in town. The Carnival of German American Relations was started by Joerg Wolf of Atlantic Review, whom we know as a friend and contributor to Carnival of the Liberals. Hey Joerg! When’re you going to host Carnival of the Liberals!?

They’ve already got their first edition under their belt and the second one is on the way, scheduled for March 11th at both Atlantic Review and the German blog Statler and Waldorf. Submitting couldn’t be easier – all you’ve got to do is ping the special trackback URL Joerg has set up and your entry will automatically appear on the CoGAR page, or if your blogging platform supports automatic trackbacks just link the phrase "Submitted to the Carnival of German American Relations" in your post.

CoGAR is another selective blog carnival though, which means that the carnival host determines which submissions appear in the actual carnival. While some might criticize this decision I think it makes a lot of sense. It exposes new or casual readers to the absolute best within a certain field and helps differentiate a carnival from all the other carnivals out there.

So fire up your keyboards and write that masterpiece of transatlantic political, social or cultural analysis that you’ve been meaning to get to for months, because now that the Carnival of German American Relations is here you don’t have any excuse to delay.