Writer Jana Zinser’s Blog

Within the pages of Jana’s blog you will find helpful articles and interesting insights about everything that’s related to Jana Zinser.

The Holocaust Shoe Project

May 4, 2016

By Alan Morawiec “When allied armies liberated German concentration camps at the end of World War II, they found towering piles of prisoners’ shoes. Each pair of these shoes was a mournful representative of the men, women, and children who lost their lives during the holocaust. My name is Alan Morawiec and I teach middle-school…

Terri Leidich and BQB Publishing at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards-

April 8, 2016

Publisher Terri Leidich representing The Children’s Train at the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards tonight at Salt Lake City!

Gary Dorion’s Silverlight Cafe Historical Fiction Issue

March 26, 2016

The Children’s Train was included in Gary Dorion’s Silverlight Cafe: A Crossroads For Authors & Readers’ Historical Fiction Issue. Click Here to Read.

Finalist for Benjamin Franklin Award from IBPA

March 15, 2016

The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) has chosen The Children’s Train as a finalist for their prestigious Benjamin Franklin Book Award for historical fiction.

Highlands Ranch Book Signing for The Children’s Train

March 14, 2016

Thanks to the Douglas County Library and Lisa Casper for allowing me to attend Colorado authors’ book reading and signing for The Children’s Train at the beautiful Highlands Ranch Library on Saturday!

Book Signing for The Children’s Train March 12

March 8, 2016

Colorado Author Showcase and Book Signing including The Children’s Train. Discover books by Colorado Authors on March 12, at the Highlands Ranch Library at 9292 S. Ridgeline Blvd, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129. Listen to local authors talk about their books. Authors include: Terry Whalin, Jana Zinser, Angela Hollis, J.D. Dudycha, Molly Moorhead Short, Alison Moorhead Kruzig,…

Excerpt from Chapter 26 The Children’s Train

February 25, 2016

From Bublish: Hitler is Under the Bed

Estes Park Author’s Event

February 25, 2016

Thanks to the Estes Park Library for a great author’s event and book signing last weekend. Beautiful people and a beautiful town!

Estes Park Book Signing

February 15, 2016

Come to the Estes Park Library on Saturday February 20, from 1-4 for a Colorado author event. I will be there with The Children’s Train. There will be presentations and book signings. Hope to see you there in the beautiful Rocky Mountains!

Trudi LoPreto Review

February 14, 2016

Readers’ Favorite A vivid, informative story that will pull at your heartstrings is what The Children’s Train (Escape on the Kindertransport) is all about. Hitler’s reign has begun in Germany and all of the Jewish people are his targets. England has agreed to try to save the children. Parents with broken hearts put their children…

New Yorker article on Eric Woolson “The Iowa Caucus’s Catnip King”

February 6, 2016

Come for the Football, Go Home with a Book Club!!!

January 24, 2016

Karen Bolton’s friends are in for a surprise today. When they get together in Massachusetts to cheer on the Patriots and eat chips and salsa, she will send them home with a copy of The Children’s Train! She just started the first only Football and Book Club!