It’s release day for FINDING PARIS!!
And so, some author facts for you, gentle readers!
FINDING PARIS is:
- Book number 6 for me!
- My first contemporary YA.
- My first book with Harper Collins/Balzer and
Bray
- An emotional family drama wrapped in a mystery,
with a road trip center and a bit of romance.
- The book I first outlined at what a group of us
Texas authors lovingly refer to as The Lodge of Death. I stopped writing to
please someone else and out came the book I was supposed to be writing.
- A book with sparer prose than some of my others.
So it felt a little like poetry to me, although it’s not verse. Every word had
to count. Lots of showing. Much less telling.
- About the things we do for the people we love
and the blind spots we have for those people
- About how difficult it is to voice and own our
truths.
- About the secrets that families have and about
the strange, wonderful and sometimes painful sibling relationship.
- About broken families and girls whose voices
need to be heard.
- And about hope.
Among other things!
I’ll be talking about all this and more in various places including
guest posts at Janet Fox’s blog; Cynthia Leitich Smith’s Cynsations; C.C.
Hunter’s blog; various stops on a blog tour arranged by the awesome Jean Book
Nerd, and a bunch of places in between.
I hope you read and love FINDING PARIS. I’m very proud of
all my books, but particularly proud of getting to this one at this time and
this place in my career. It takes place in Vegas and points beyond and includes
more than one Paris, but all of them devoid of anything authentically French.
(Which is exactly the point. You’ll see.)
If you’re in Houston,
come join me at my launch party at Blue Willow Bookshop, Saturday, 4/25, at 2
PM.
And let’s all find our Paris. Whatever or wherever it might
be!
