It’s Fun to be Spontaneous! New Release: The Purgatorium
Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I’m a fairly scheduled person. The Gatekeeper’s Saga, for example, has been published on a rigid, inflexible time line since August, 2012: one book every six months, with the fifth and sixth books coming out next spring and fall. Well…
I was originally planning on waiting to publish the first book in a new series, The Purgatorium, until after The Gatekeeper’s Saga is finished, but a few enthusiastic members on my street team have convinced me to go ahead and release it now.
What? Now? But I haven’t done any promo to build up for the big day? Can I really do this? It’s not on the schedule. It’s not part of the plan. Can I be so decadent as to go ahead and take the plunge?
The book has already gone through several rounds of edits, and the cover has been made. So why not?
It’s a bit different from The Gatekeeper’s Saga–a little darker, but not without the edge of sweetness I carefully maintain in all my YA books. It’s a contemporary thriller about seventeen-year-old Daphne Janus, who is floored when her parents agree to let her accompany her best friend to a getaway resort on an island off the coast of California. She doesn’t know her parents have sent her to the Purgatorium as a last-ditch effort to save their child.
Her best friend and life-long neighbor takes her to a mostly uninhabited island with a wildlife preserve on one side and Chumash Indian ruins on the “haunted” side. The resort might be beautiful, the beach pristine, and the views from the headland amazing, but strange things begin to happen that soon have Daphne running for her life. At first she finds the therapeutic games thrilling: the ghosts that visit her room, the dropping elevator, and the kayak incident are actually kind of fun once she recovers from them. But when her horse bucks her off during a trail ride and she becomes lost on the haunted side of the island, it’s not fun anymore, and she wonders if her parents have sent her there to help her or to punish her.
The book is $3.99 in ebook and $12 in paperback. I will post all the purchase links on my “Books” page as soon as they are available. Meanwhile, you might want to enter for a chance to win one of three signed paperback editions as soon as my Goodreads Giveaway goes live. You can find the widget at the bottom of this page.
This new impulsive me is kind of fun!
