CANDOR is the word of the day on dictionary.com! Gosh darn, it doesn't mention my book. :-)

I particularly like the old Latin definition of "purity and openness"--which is the opposite of what reaaaaaly happens in my fictional town of Candor, Florida. Lots of hidden dirt and secrets!

I just slid my finished copyedits into my FedEx envelope and guess what popped up in my Google Alerts?

CANDOR is available on Amazon.com for pre-orders!

I have an ISBN. Two of them, actually. And yep, there's my release date, 09/22/09.

Finally--it will take less time for my book to be "born" that it would take to have a baby!

Today my editor is supposed to be dropping revisions in the mail for me to get cranking on. So I thought it was a good time to do something fun--here are some of the first lines that CANDOR has had since its birth (as you can see, I monkeyed with the first few chapters a LOT... too, too much in fact):

Thunk-thump. Push. Thunk-thump. Glide. (very ( Read more... )

Astounding exciting gratifying news. My lovely and amazing agent, Elana Roth at Firebrand Literary, has sold CANDOR to Regina Griffin at Egmont USA. It's a two-book deal and CANDOR will hopefully be on the debut Fall 2009 list.

CANDOR, a dystopian YA, will be my first pubbed novel. It is the third novel I wrote (and the other two shall stay forever ( Read more... )