Tour News: Class Acts in Chicago in February!

Happy New Year! It's time to start announcing winter and spring tour plans! First up, I'll be in the Chicago area the first week of February for the Class Acts Tour, with eleven other authors as part of Naperville Reads Week!

Click Here for the scoop!

Cover Reveal: EXILE (coming April '14)

Here is the cover for my contemporary YA novel EXILE, coming this spring!

And here's the copy:

Catherine Summer Carlson knows how to manage bands like a professional—she’s a student at the PopArts Academy at Mount Hope High, where rock legends Allegiance to North got their start. Summer knows that falling for the lead singer of her latest band is the least professional thing a manager can do. But Caleb Daniels isn’t an ordinary band boy—he’s a hot, dreamy, sweet-singing, exiled-from-his-old-band, possibly-with-a-deep-dark-side band boy. And he can do that thing. That thing when someone sings a song and it inhabits you, possesses you, and moves you like a marionette to its will.

Summer also finds herself at the center of a mystery she never saw coming. When Caleb reveals a secret about his long-lost father, one band’s past becomes another’s present, and Summer finds it harder and harder to be both band manager and girlfriend. She knows what the well-mannered Catherine side of her would do, but she also knows what her heart is telling her. Maybe it’s time to accept who she really is, even if it means becoming an exile herself. . . .

Tour and Cover Reveals!

TOUR UPDATE:
LAST WEEKEND
This weekend was Wordstock in Portland, where we made it to The TARDIS Room, a fish and chip shop with a —you guessed it— theme. Here I am by the bathroom with author Sean Beaudoin. Though the bar was definitely bigger on the inside, the bathroom was only for one.

THIS WEEKEND:
If you're in the Bay Area, join me and all kinds of fun authors at Hicklebee's in San Jose on Friday October 11 or at Books, Inc. Opera Plaza on Saturday October 12.

Coming this week: COVER REVEAL:
Stay tuned for the cover reveal to my upcoming contemporary YA novel called Exile!

Deadline Dash for Atlanteans Three (series finale)

This is what it looks like this week in my office, as I careen toward the end 

of Owen's journey in THE ATLANTEANS series:

Now Hear This: Fall Tour Dates!

I'm thrilled to announce fall tour dates! Lots of excellent events with excellent authors. I hope to see you there! (and if I'm not coming to your neck of the woods, let me know and I'll see what I can do in the spring.)
 
9/15: Bainbridge Island, WA: Eagle Harbor Books w/ Suzanne Selfors, George Shannon & Martha Brockenbrough. 3pm
 
9/21: Oak Harbor, WA: Oak Harbor Library Teen Author Brunch w/ Marissa Meyer & Jeanne Ryan

9/26: Seattle, WA: LitFix Seattle at The Rendezvous: w/ Jaret Middleton, Litsa Dremousis & Indu Sundaresan. 7pm


10/4-6: Portland, OR: Wordstock! Three panels, too many awesome authors to count!


10/11: San Jose, CA: Hicklebees, YOU ARE NEXT "Boy's Locker" w/ Sean Beaudoin

10/12: San Francisco, CA: Teenquake / Not Your Mother's Book Club: Books Inc, Opera Plaza 4pm

10/18: Spokane, WA: Auntie's Bookstore YOU ARE NEXT Tour

10/24: Seattle, WA: Seattle Lit Crawl at Richard Hugo House "Liner Notes: Authors Rock Out" w/Danbert Nobacon, Kari Luna, Sean Beaudoin, and Conrad Wesselhoeft. 6pm

11/1-3: Las Vegas, NV: Vegas Valley Book Festival. With so many great authors it's stupid. And blackjack.

11/6: Salt Lake City, UT: King's English Bookshop w/ Brodi Ashton and Sara Zarr.

11/17: Seattle, WA: Seattle7Writers Holiday Books Signing, Phinney Ridge Community Center 2-5pm

11/22-23: Boston, MA: NCTE Annual Convention.

Ten Things I'm Doing This Summer

1. Writing the third (and final) book in the Atlanteans series!
2. Growing Tomatoes!

3. Watching Season 5 of Dr. Who!

4. Planning my next middle grade novel, a sci-fi!
5. Camping in the Cascades.
6. Doing final edits on next year's contemporary YA: EXILE.
7. Playing miniature golf. For keeps.
8. Eating gobs of kale.

9. Going to as many summer movies as I can, usually on Tuesday nights when the popcorn is $2!
10. Starting Game of Thrones.

What are YOU up to this summer?

The Dark Shore Blog Tour

To celebrate the release of THE DARK SHORE, I'll be on a blog tour during May and June. Here are the stops!

May 21: Forever Young Adult Guest Post: A (manic) Day from My Writing Calendar
May 22: Forever Young Adult: Review and Giveaway (Books 1 and 2!)

May 23: EMS Reviews Books: Review and Giveaway (Books 1 and 2!)

May 28: BookYAReview: Review and Q&A

May 31: Emily’s Crammed Bookshelf: Review

June 3: Synchronized Reading: Review and Guest Post

June 14: The Bookshelf Sophisticate : Review and Guest Post
June 15: Katie’s Book Blog: Review and Interview

June 16: Justin's Book Blog: Review and Discussion Post