Book Deal with Harper Collins!!

On Saturday, June 28, 2014, after the girls had gone to bed, I opened up a blank Word document and started typing.  This itself wasn’t unusual—I’ve always written stories, almost as long as I’ve been drawing, and throwing vague ideas onto paper was nothing new.  But this time was different.  This was the novel I was determined to see through to the end.  Not write just for my own enjoyment, but with the ultimate goal of seeing it in print.  Dragged along by a determined protagonist through a constantly-evolving world, I had high hopes for this little brainchild.

One year, four months, and fourteen days later, I can finally announce that Woodwalker has been picked up by HarperCollins and will be published in the spring of 2016!

There are an outrageous number of people to thank for helping make this a reality, the foremost being my amazing agent, Valerie Noble of Donaghy Literary Group, who believed in me and Woodwalker from the get-go.  I’m grateful to my new editor, David Pomerico of Harper Voyager Impulse for taking me on for publication.  Will, of course, who was the first person to lay eyes on my ugly little larvae of a first draft and assured me it wasn’t the worst piece of writing ever penned.  My beta readers—my mom, who prodded and nudged each scene to achieve its full potential; my dad, who corrected all my biology and natural science errors; Anne Marie, who helped me create a believable and dynamic world; and of course Caitlin, who will always and forever be my soul sister, partner in crime, and fellow writer.  Oh, and Corey, even though he never actually finished the book.

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