SO Excited

I have TWO pieces of really good news to share.  One that I'm super excited about, and one that is so beyond super exciting, it's like reenergizing my life.  Not even joking. 

1.  SCARLET is on the cover of Booklist magazine!  

AND they named one of ten best Historical Fiction for Youth!!

Now, I can say this because I both love my cover and had nothing to do with how gorgeous it is...but Scar makes a pretty good cover model, am I right? 

For those of you that aren't familiar, Booklist is a publication from the American Library Association, and many public and private libraries have subscriptions, so if you have a chance, go check it out!  I will definitely be petting the cover a little and I hope you can join me. 

 

2) Well, the second piece of news is both totally un-book-related and yet in a lot of ways has everything to do with my writing.  Readers of this blog know (sometimes by what I'm writing, sometimes by my absense) that I'm a busy girl.  I work with the outstanding non-profit Boston GLOW; I write and write and write, and I work full time.  I feel like I've been stretched across multiple canoes and instead of joining together to form one big boat, they're all slowly drifting apart beneath me, and I'm about to fall in the water. 

 

Well, I don't want that to be the case.  So I've been thinking a lot in the past year about how I really bring all these things I care about together and synthesize a more effective and happy future for myself. 

The answer I came up with:  I don't really have a great answer.  But I do know where to find it.  So let's amend that to I don't really have a great answer YET. 

But I knew it was somewhere within the education field.  Whether its teaching or developing more programs to get the arts to young people as a way of effective empowerment and enrichment, I'm not sure yet.  But like I said, I knew it was education. 

So I applied to the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  And I got in. [image error]It's not legit until you have a sweatshirt...

So the super exciting next phase of my life will be taking place in Harvard Square for the next year (weirdly full circle because my friends and I used to think it was THE COOLEST to hang out in Harvard Square when we were teens.  NewburyComics4Life).  And I can't even tell you how excited I am to be working with these peers, these teachers, this school.  I feel open and electric in a way that I haven't in a long time, and really, what's better than that?  NOTHING. 

So I'm REALLY excited.  And of course, in the middle of this, I will be writing Scarlet 3 and finally getting to share with you the TITLE, COVER, and ACTUAL BOOK of Scarlet 2, soo...I'm pretty sure this will be the best year ever. 

Who's with me? 

xx