The Paperback Is Here, But I Am Not

Since I only announced when the Kindle edition of CAMP NEVER released, I wanted to quickly jump in and say that the paperback is now available on Amazon! You can find it here. I won't be sticking around to do the usual things that come with a book release. This is the time that I should be promoting my new book on a regular basis, but I won't be. I'm taking a break from blogging, Twitter, and other media related to my author life. Because... A) I want to focus on drafting for a little while. The completed, unpublished manuscripts I have right now aren't appealing to me, and I want to draft two or three new manuscripts...

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The Book That Fought Me

CAMP NEVER is finally out in the world! Well, the Kindle version. You can find it here. I'm having issues with the paperback version, which is par for the course for this book. Here's a simplified timeline of my fight with Camp Never: Drafted the manuscript a few years ago. (It's actually a complete blank slate rewrite of an older story.) Made revisions after several rounds with critique partners, beta readers, reading the MS aloud, and printing it out and reading it. Formatted manuscript for both e-book and print. Waited until last minute to test e-book because life is crazy right now. Found formatting errors in e-book. Corrected...

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Cover Reveal for CAMP NEVER

I know I just posted about my upcoming release, but I didn't want to wait any longer to reveal the cover! Just like my last two books, this cover was created by the amazingly skilled Steven Novak of Novak Illustration. If you're in need of a cover designer, I super highly recommend him! And now, here's the cover for CAMP NEVER... (You can click on it for a larger size.) What's the book about? Here's the back cover summary: Typer Stockton should not spend her summer at Camp Caspar. Camp Caspar is a “behavior camp,” full of delinquents....

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Excited.

Happy New Year! Not sure if it's still cool to say that this late in January, but I haven't posted in a couple of months, so I feel the need to wish you all a happy one. I have hope that it will turn out to be a good year. One big thing happening for me in 2016 is a new book release. I have another contemporary middle grade book coming out, called CAMP NEVER. It will be released in February (exact date to be announced soon.) I'm pretty excited. (Trivia: The title of this post, Excited, follows the same theme as the chapter titles...

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