The News I Have Been Waiting to Share!

I will put up a longer and more detailed blog post later this week about my path to publication, but right now, I am so excited that I can barely string together a coherent sentence. So, here is the short of it...

My co-author Lindsay Currie and I have sold not one, but TWO books to Brian Farrey at Flux! We are grateful to everyone who has helped us on this journey so far, and tremendously excited to be working with such a brilliant editor. More to follow, but for now, here's the PM announcement:

March 28, 2013

Children's:
Young Adult
Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie's LEAVING EDEN, in which three teens en route to a concert have car trouble leaving them stranded in an eerie rural town that is cut off from civilization and populated by a radical cult whose leader is determined to keep the community pure from outside influences at all costs, even murder, to Brian Farrey-Latz at Llewellyn, in a nice deal, in a two-book deal, for publication in Fall 2014, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, representing Trisha Leaver, & Kathleen Rushall at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, representing Lindsay Currie (World English).
Foreign: Taryn Fagerness Agency



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The Best Advice I Ever Recieved

For the past three years I've kept an electronic journal. Okay, it’s more a word document entitled "How you are going to screw yourself and you writing" but let’s be honest, electronic journal just sounds better. Anyhow, it has survived two laptops and one desktop. It is the first file I transfer over to my new computers, after my manuscripts of course. It’s nothing earth shattering, just a list of writerly advice I’ve received over the years. I read it every single time I start a new manuscript, hoping to avoid making the same mistakes I have undoubtedly made before. Where do I collect these little nuggets of knowledge? CP's, my agent, editors who have been generous to give me feedback on my manuscripts, all sorts of random places. Here is my favorite... or should I say the one that has impacted my writing the most:


A series of coincidences does not make a plot.


I could explain it, give you horribly embarrassing examples of how my first attempt at writing fell into this category, but I will spare you . . . or rather myself the embarrassment of admitting that I have written entire manuscripts with this fatal flaw.

Have you ever received a piece of writerly advice that has stuck with you? If so, I would love to hear it/ add it to my list!

STRIPPED -- COVER REVEAL

Stripped

by Brooklyn Skye 

Release Date: 05/14/13

Cover designed by: Lisa Poff Photography

Cover reveal organized by: YA Bound

Summary from Goodreads:

“I like you.” His voice is low and soft, which I don’t deserve. I look away, down the rutted parking lot.

“Don’t…waste those words on me.”

He touches my cheek. “You just need someone to show you.”

“No.” I ease back again. “I don’t. So please, Torrin, stop trying to swoop in and save me. I don’t need saving.”

College freshman Quinn Montgomery will do anything to avoid the mistake her sister made—killing herself over a boy. But when she is forced into nude modeling at a local college to support her family after a bankruptcy, she begins to crack, just enough to let Torrin, the university’s top varsity oarsman, see that the real Quinn is not as feisty and unapproachable as she wants everyone to think. But letting someone in comes at a steep cost and, it turns out, Torrin is connected to Quinn’s family in more ways than she could ever imagine.

About the Author

Brooklyn Skye is an author, editorial intern, and just your average awkward girl (especially on the phone!). Her new adult debut, STRIPPED, releases May 2013!

Follow Brooklyn at:

Website * Twitter * Goodreads

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