Here’s me, looking at the PDF with the digital proof of Adina at Her Best‘s PJ Our Way edition. IY”H, the tweenage subscribers will be able to choose Adina as their free book in just a couple weeks.
I’ve been in a bit of a mood lately, since I’d gotten out of my writing groove over the summer and I have received a slew of rejections (or just been ghosted) recently. But the email from PJ Our Way folks containing this PDF, and some progress I’ve made on other projects the last couple days, is heartening me a bit. Hopefully, I’ll have more good news soon.
To the best of my knowledge, Adina at Her Best is the first middle grade book selected for PJ Our Way that was originally published by a Haredi press. I hope it’s not the last! [EDIT: I just found out that there have been a few of HaChai’s “Fun-to-Read” titles used for PJ Our Way, so I’m not QUITE the trailblazer I thought I was. ;)] The cover is slightly different, the end of the story has been revised. Significantly, we replaced a lot of the Jewy-ist language so people with little Jewish background will still be able to understand what’s going on, and we improved the story so it’s not a White Savior narrative (I mentioned this on the blog a while back, I think).
Share any of your book-related good news (things you’ve enjoyed reading recently, things you’ve written yourself, etc.) in the comments.
Rebecca Klempner 
I’ve started submitting my first novel to agents! Nothing so far, but it’s early days and I haven’t sent it to many agents because of Yom Tov and work (and now I’m on staycation). I had an idea for a second novel a while back and I’ve been doing preparation for it, working out plot and characters and also getting hold of books for research, as it will need some serious research.
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This is all great news! I hope you have much success with the completed novel and can’t wait to find out more about the second one! May the research, etc. go smoothly! And enjoy the staycation!
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Congrats!! I will tell Ashira to choose this one! How exciting!
On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 4:12 PM Rebecca Klempner wrote:
> beccakinla posted: ” Here’s me, looking at the PDF with the digital proof > of Adina at Her Best’s PJ Our Way edition. IY”H, the tweenage subscribers > will be able to choose Adina as their free book in just a couple weeks. My > husband claims I was smiling like a Cheshire Cat.” >
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If she does, have her post a review and/or a photo of her with the book.
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Such major news! Congrats!
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Thanks!
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One of our daughters has just selected this book!
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Yay!
(Also fangirling a bit that you commented! Love your stories!)
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