Some lovely holiday surprises...
As you know, The One That I Want won't be out in paperback until February 7, but it's already available as an e-book. I wasn't given advance copies to send out, but several more book bloggers have posted very kind reviews. Read Sam, Read! says "the resolution to the plot was awesomeawesomeawesome--everything happened just the way I wanted it to, plus there were a ton of moments where I had to book down to squeal." Squealing is good. And the chicks at Rather Be Reading have declared this "Jennifer Echols week." I thought I was the only one who did that. You must check out their adorable review of The One That I Want with Estelle's majorette pictures, and their review of Going Too Far says Magan "never wanted the book to end!" Warms my heart.
I've also posted a little review of my own. Over on Kiss and Tell YA, I've written a guest blog about the magical book that made me want to be a writer.
As for my other book coming out in 2012, Such a Rush...well, that's what I'm revising. Today! And tomorrow! And Christmas! And Monday! It's due on Tuesday morning, and since I have it on the brain and several of you have asked me for a description, I thought I'd post the synopsis.
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Such a Rush
A sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers.
High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever.
But Mr. Hall’s teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, are determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business--until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers--and the consequences could be deadly.
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That's the synopsis I wrote, anyway. The publisher always takes what I write and gussies it up for the back of the book. We'll know soon, because they're re-shooting the cover photo in the next few weeks. The copyedits and review copies will come soon after that, and the ball will be rolling.
Have a wonderful holiday, everyone, and think of me sneaking a few pages of revision between courses of homemade Thai food for Christmas dinner.