Happy December 12th! The Kindle contest is still underway. Here's how it works: you nominate a friend/family member/coworker/etc. who you think needs a Kindle (tell us why they need/deserve one!) I'll be collecting entries until December 21st and then a winner will be chosen and the person nominated and the one who nominated them will both receive a Kindle! You only have to nominate a person once but you can nominate different people on different days if you want to. All you have to do to enter is comment on one of the Advent Calendar posts between now and then. But there are also daily giveaways of cool stuff too! Daily winners will be selected from that day's comments.

Yesterday's winner of a signed copy of I Shall Not Want is Julie Bonoma. Congratulations! To enter today's giveaway, just comment below. Today's goodie is an excerpt from The Winter of Candy Canes. Today's winner will receive a signed copy of The Winter of Candy Canes.

To read the excerpt here.

And here's what the repackaged cover of the book will look like when it comes out: