Giveaway Winner and Teaching Authors in Cyberspace

We've enjoyed celebrating the release of April Halprin Wayland's New Year at the Pier--A Rosh Hashanah Story with all our readers!  If you'd like to learn more about April and her wonderful book, check out these other stops on her blog tour:

• Cynsations interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Barbara Bietz's "Jewish Books for Children" blog interview   
• Tina Nichols Coury's blog interview with Laurie Hornick, editor of New Year at the Pier
• Heidi Estrin’s Book of Life blog podcast interview
• The Just One More Book! blog’s podcast book review of New Year at the Pier

By the way, April isn't the only Teaching Author to be interviewed in Cyberspace this month:

• Mary Ann Rodman was interviewed by Amy Bowllan as part of her School Library Journal blog series on "Writers Against Racism."  
• And I appeared on Scotti Cohn's "It Happened in Chicago" blog. 

As promised, I am announcing our contest winner today. Thank you to everyone who took time to post a goal for the new school year. Your goals are so inspiring! Fortunately, this contest was a random drawing because it would have been too hard to choose the "best" entry.

And now, drum roll please! The winner of a free autographed copy of New Year at the Pier--A Rosh Hashanah Story is Kim Winters! Kim posted:

"My goal is to write two pages a day on my current fantasy novel in progress now through the end of the year."

Congratulations, Kim, and good luck following through on your goal!

And don't forget: we expect everyone who posted a goal to report back on your progress during the first two weeks of January! If you didn't win this time, you'll have the opportunity to enter our "second-chance" drawing then.

Finally, if you're planning to purchase a copy of April's book, we hope you'll do so at an Independent bookseller. You can find an Independent near you by clicking here, or order online by clicking here.  Would you like an autographed book plate to go with your new book? See April's website.