First off, Happy National Pizza Party day!!! Everybody pizza shimmy! I am so excited! Some of you may remember that I made an announcement in February that I was looking for submissions for a young adult anthology. The theme? Pizza of course!! Fifty of you rose to the challenge and a select fourteen were chosen. There were so many fantastic submissions, I wanted so badly to choose more than that. But alas, I had to stick to my original guidelines and today we're celebrating it becoming a real thing! Here are the details! A Pizza My Heart: An Anthology[...]
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1 EDIT: Pizza Anthology submission due date has been extended to March 18, 2016. Happy National Pizza Day! There's no better day to announce this, so here we go! Do you love pizza? Do you love YA? Do you like to YA while you pizza or pizza while you YA? Well, my friend, you are in the right place at the pizza-iest time. Because I am looking for submissions for a YA pizza anthology. There are a few rules, which I'll get to below. But first, a moment of pizza please. ^ I trust her ^ Yes I do if there is pizza. ^ Pizza Shimmy ^ That one's for Bri[...]
One of the things I love most about working with Brian is that he's full of surprises. We love to surprise each other. Usually mine starts with "I did a thing..." Earlier this week Brian messaged me. The message said, "I may have just cut a trailer for Harrowed..." It was followed by another. "I may have jut sent you a link." My eyes bulged out of my head when I realized what he was saying. HE MADE US A BOOK TRAILER. I was so excited and jazzed and I couldn't wait to see it. And then I saw it. And it was perfect. BEHOLD THE GLORY OF THE BOOK TRAILER![...]
Today is a very special day. Why? Because today Brian LeTendre and I are revealing our cover for Harrowed!! Harrowed is a YA horror novel about a serial killer stalking a small town in Massachusetts, and a girl who is trying to solve the murders. Everyone knows how much I love horror and I was beyond excited to start collaborating with Brian on a new series called the Woodsview Murders. Book one is Harrowed, out 9/22/15. Brian has done a fantastic job updating everyone on the progress and our crazy edit month that we affectionately dubbed "Editpalooza." Me, l[...]
SWEET MADNESS, September 18, 2015 from Merit Press Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty one. Who was Lizzie Borden? A confused young woman, or a cold-hearted killer? For generations, people all over the world have wondered how Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, met their gruesome deaths. Lizzie, Andrew’s younger daughter, was charged, but a jury took only 90 minutes to find her not guilty. In this retelling, the family maid, Bridget Sullivan, shines a compassionate light on[...]