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January 21, 2015
The Moon and More Paperback!
So I’m REALLY excited to share with you all the new paperback cover for THE MOON AND MORE. I love that we stuck with the beach theme but changed it so it looks closer to SAINT ANYTHING. It will be out on the same day as the new book, May 5th!
Isn’t it just SO PRETTY? On a related note, I now wish it was summer more than ever. This is the closest I will get for another couple of months, I fear….
Have a great day, everyone!
January 4, 2015
A new year.
Happy 2015!
Okay, so that exclamation point is very cheery. And it’s hard to be cheery today, on the last day of vacation, when it is January and gray outside and the bulk of winter ahead of us. But what IS making me feel good is that a year ago today, I was sitting in this same seat, looking out this same window at a gray day and wondering if I’d ever have another book to write, if an idea would EVER come to me. And eventually, one did. First it was an idea, then a process, then a project, th...
October 31, 2014
Saint Anything, coming 5/5/2015!
I’m SO excited to share the cover for my 12th novel, SAINT ANYTHING. Out May 5, 2015! More to come. Cannot wait to share this one with you guys….
October 1, 2014
Coming in 2015….
…my newest novel, SAINT ANYTHING! Here’s what I can share so far, from PW:
Dessen’s Latest to Viking Children’s
Bestselling YA author Sarah Dessen sold her 12th novel to Ken Wright, v-p and publisher of Viking Children’s Books. Wright took world rights to the book from Writers House agent Leigh Feldman, and Viking editor-at-large Regina Hayes will edit. Saint Anything, set for 2015, is about a girl named Sydney who finds solace in a new love interest while dealing with her older brother’s inca...
August 29, 2014
Sydney.
So a week ago today, around 9:30, I was checking Twitter when I saw this:
Congrats to YA author @sarahdessen: her 12th novel, ‘Saint Anything,’ is due out next year from Viking http://t.co/uauH8qZc86
— Children’s Bookshelf (@PWKidsBookshelf) August 23, 2014
And I thought: okay. Here we go.
As many of you remember, having read it on this very blog, back in December I set aside the novel I’d been working on since the previous winter. It was a hard decision, and terrifying, but I had to do it. That...
