Friday, May 31, 2013

MY LIFE AS A LUMBERJACK -- Cover Reveal!




About MY LIFE AS A LUMBERJACK (or how I fell for the wrong guy(s)): Good-looking rangers, fresh mountain air and an avalanche of crazy adventures await unsuspecting Mercedes “Benz” Bennion in her summer job with the US Forest Service.




About Sara Olds: Sara V. Olds has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. One of her favorite memories is of unfolding a tale for friends while they were all bundled in sleeping bags watching a comet shower in the Uintah Mountains.
Mother of three: Large, Medium and Small, she welcomes her newest role, that of mother-in-law.

Life has taken her from thither to yon and back again—she's moved 22 times during her marriage. She breathes to travel. Longs to fulfill a lifelong dream of owning a horse. Is an addictive reader. Enjoys swimming, skiing, violin and movies. Wonders if she'll ever get to SCUBA dive again. And has found a calling that fulfills her in ways she never could have imagined—teaching history to—wait for it—8th Graders.

Her stories consume her. There's nothing she'd rather do than spend all day, all night and the next day conversing with her latest set of characters. History, adventure, action, romance, humor. Adults, YA and kids. Yep, she does it all. Looking for something to enjoy on a quiet rainy afternoon? Or wanting a pulse-pounding, stay up all night turning pages adventure? Or a you've-GOT-to-be-kidding romp? You'll find them in her pages.


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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

YA Contemporary -- An Amazing Ending to a Long Journey

Many of you know that YA Contemporary is my first passion, the reason I first started putting pen to paper. It took some time and several manuscripts before I found one that called to me.  The patience, the trials, the support of my CP's and agent, and the all the heartbreak that went into this writing journey paid off and I can now ecstatically announce that I have sold my YA Contemporary ... and to the amazing Janine O'Malley at FSG/ Macmillan at that!


May 21, 2013
Children's:
Young Adult 
Trisha Leaver's SECRETS SISTERS KEEP, where a teenage girl assumes her identical twin's identity after a freak accident leaves her sister dead, only to find that her sister's supposedly perfect life was full of secrets that were destroying her, to Janine O'Malley at Farrar, Straus Children's, for publication in Winter 2015, by Kevan Lyon at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency (World)