So it’s in publisher’s marketplace, which means it’s OK to share…

I sold a book to Bloomsbury!

This is my YA contemporary, SEAN GRISWOLD’S HEAD, which I actually wrote before PRINCESS FOR HIRE, but we just started shopping it a few weeks past. And I have to tell you, it means so much to me that a different strand of my writing will be out there.  I’ve heard lately that in this “climate”, funny and poignant stories won’t sell. But ’tis not true!! (I mean that in the most professional way possible, of course. If you heard a neener neener after that, well, that wasn’t me. Must be your subconscious.)

Here’s a little something about it…

After discovering her father’s big Multiple Sclerosis secret, Payton Gritas’s structured life crumbles. So begin her excruciating ‘chats’ with Ms Callahan, a school counselor aiming to save Payton from drowning in denial by encouraging her to write Focus Exercises on any random object. Payton chooses Sean Griswold, her alphabetical connection since kindergarten. More specifically, she chooses his somewhat over-sized head.

As Payton’s research grows into something a little less scientific and a little more crush-like, it spawns more and more questions about Sean and his dome. Like what’s with the scar?  And why is a fifteen year old training to be the next Lance Armstrong? Payton finds answers to these questions by getting inside Sean’s blond head, while Sean somehow finds a way into her guarded heart. But when Payton realizes her Sean obsession won’t ultimately mend her battered relationship with her dad, she must shift her focus to the one person who can find the way forward – herself.

When I’m in a more subdued state, perhaps, I’ll be able to share more about SGH and my writing journey with it (or you could, you know, read through this blog). But for now, let’s just dance.