Announcing: EDUCATING SIMON, my sixth novel

Being gay. Being transgender. Autism. Synesthesia. The Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Boston Marathon bombing. London vs. Boston.

What do all these topics have to do with each other? They’re all included, in one way or another, in my sixth novel, EDUCATING SIMON.

Everything sixteen-year-old Simon Fitzroy-Hunt loves in is in England. There’s his school, his boyfriend, his cat, and especially Oxford University, which Simon plans to attend just as his beloved late father planned. But all of Simon’s certainties come crashing down when his mother remarries and drags him to Boston with her.

Furious and unforgiving, Simon finds plenty to resent in America. His stepsister is overindulged by her father and struggling with Asperger syndrome. And Simon’s school project—coaching a young student for the national Spelling Bee—hits a complication when eleven-year-old Toby makes a confession: there’s a girl trapped inside his body, and her name is Kay.

Helping Kay find her way begins changing Simon, too, presenting different perspectives and revealing a strength that’s gone untapped until now. And as the life he’s known and the future he envisioned slip further away each day, he realizes he can either lose his direction entirely, or forge a new—and perhaps even better—path.

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Thanks to everyone who has read my books in the past. If you also read EDUCATING SIMON, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.