The winner of a signed copy of Kate Walden Directs: Night of the Zombie Chickens is:
Mia W.
Congratulations, Mia! Expect an email soon.
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Jacqueline Houtman is the author of the middle-grade novel THE REINVENTION OF EDISON THOMAS (Front Street/Boyds Mills Press 2010) and coauthor, with Walter Naegle and Michael G. Long, of the biography for young (and not-so-young) readers, BAYARD RUSTIN: THE INVISIBLE ACTIVIST (Quaker Press 2014). Find her at www.jhoutman.com
Abby, I don’t know what you are talking about. I don’t even have a *mild* dliiske for you. Never have. I do like your blog and have visited it several times in the past couple of years. My first job was being the YA librarian in a tiny town an hour from Chicago. Like you, I felt out of the loop. So I started writing reviews for SLJ, then an article. It helped. In my years of participation in ALA I have met many librarians from tiny towns who built nice careers for themselves, whether they chose to stay where they were and write and review and serve on committees or use their writing and committee work to position themselves for bigger jobs. It’s more up to you than I think you think. Good luck!