Happy birthday, Elana Johnson, Blogger Extraordinaire and Very Special Friend!

It's your birthday, Elana Johnson!!! And I'm excited to be a part of the blogging world who is wishing you the very best birthday *ever*! 

If you don't know Elana, you simply must check out her blog which is chock full of advice and writerly help and experience and teaching. And she does it all with style and humor and wit - and bacon! 

Elana is one of the founders of Query Tracker, an online resource for querying literary agents as well as HOW to write those terrific query letters!

AND WriteOnCon - a free online, fantabulous writer's workshop every August!

She also has written a FREE E-book called From the Query to the Call, which I recommend to everyone! A **Must-Read** for any aspiring or experienced writers.  Get yours HERE.

And I am lucky and blessed to call her my friend. (I get to meet Elana every May at LDStorymakers workshop and dish about books and writing!) 

And it's YOUR (my blog readers!) lucky day, too! Guess what?!? 

Christine Fonseca, another online buddy and wonderful writer is giving away a set of ALL of Elana's YA novels to celebrate this wonderful day - plus a few other books and E-books and goodies! (Check out all of Christine's awesomely delicious YA novels, too! She is the brains behind the birthday logo and giveaway!)

Enter below! Easy Peasy! 

Have a blessed birthday, darling Elana! 
xo,
Kimberley

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Soul Sisters!

My agent called yesterday and the actual, real live CONTRACT arrived from Scholastic and is sitting on her desk!!!

It was delayed the past couple of months due to the publishing/economic shake-out and the Contracts Department is short-handed, but both my agent and editor kept assuring me ALL WAS FINE AND NOT TO WORRY. (I have a date with them for a *divine manicure* when we all get together in New York because my nails are bitten to the quick!)

What a great gift to arrive this weekend - AND THEN EVEN COOLER - in the course of our email conversation via Blackberry and IPhone, Tracey and I learned that we have birthdays on the VERY SAME DAY - TODAY!!! We're both Valentine baby's!

How cool is that?!?

I LOVE these sort of *coincidences*.

Stay tuned for CONTRACT SIGNING PICTURES next week!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY, EVERYONE!!!