Giveaway WINNERS! And also an Announcement

Before I get to announcing the WINNERS OF SWAG from the Action/Adventure/Boy Book giveaway (I KNOW YOU ARE SO EXCITED), I just wanted to talk briefly about SCBWI.*

If you have never heard of the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, you should look into it. If you write children's books (picture books through young adult), you should definitely join. It's the single best thing I've done to further my writing career -- at the conferences I learned A TON about submissions and agents and editors and how to pitch people. Through their crit-group match program, I found an awesome critique group here in the city. Through recent meetings, I met two amazing YA writers (oh hai Corrie and Ghenet!) and dragged bribed invited them to join our crit-group too. But another great thing about SCBWI are the Work-In-Progress grants.

Yes, that's right. You apply for this grant, and you get a chance to win MONEYS toward finishing your novel. HOW AWESOME.

Plus, some great authors have won grants before, like the Contemporary YA Fiction grant, and gone on to fame and fortune (oh hai Jay Asher).

This year's winner was none other than my ever-fabulous crit-partner, Corrie Wachob!

WOOHOO!!! That is A BIG DEAL. Also, the novel she won it for, The Secret Keepers, is SUPER-FAB. You should go say congrats and stalk her** before she becomes famous and they ban that sort of thing.

AND NOW. *drumroll* ON TO THE WINNERS.

Thank you, random.org for selecting them! We had over 10 entries, so everyone has 2 chances to win!

First, the winner of Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick...

garridon!!!

Second, the winner of Shelter...

Doug Solter!!!

If both of you can email me your addresses (egoodlett(at)yahoo(dot)com), I'll get those shipped off ASAP!

To everyone else, THANK YOU for entering, and stay tuned for next week! I'll be giving away middle-grade fantasy (to appease that younger self you know you should let out of the closet more often).

* And by "briefly," I mean "prepare for a giant ramble," as usual.

** I mean stalk her BLOG. Not like... camp outside her apartment. Although she does have a very pretty stoop...