A New YA Fantasy about OCD

[Bridgette]

Hello! My debut novel, The Twin Stars, is a young adult sci-fi/fantasy featuring a protagonist with OCD and anxiety. As an author with OCD, this is a very personal book to me. It was at times very therapeutic and at other times very difficult to write. So far it's garnered some nice reviews, and I'd love it if you'd check it out! The ebook just came out on Amazon and is offered at $0.99 through July 8; the paperback should be in stock within a couple of days.

A magical journal. A world savaged by its own suns. An evil prince. A princess in hiding. And a teenage girl who learns to be the hero of her own story.

Sixteen-year-old Olive Joshi has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and can't stop worrying about hurting the people she loves. She finds refuge in writing about Coseema, a magical princess on a distant planet. Coseema is fearless, confident, and perfect -- everything Olive thinks she’ll never be. When she falls through a portal into her own unfinished story, Olive finds herself in a world in peril: double suns scorch the land, the brutal Prince Burnash seeks supreme power, and Coseema is nowhere to be found. Together with her friends - a bold poet, a cursed musician, a renegade soldier, and an adventurous girl from the desert -- Olive will have to face her deepest fears to find the hero in herself.

The Twin Stars is an engrossing new portal fantasy in the spirit of the Wizard of Oz, the Neverending Story, and the Chronicles of Narnia.

[Bridgette]

Hi all, October 10-16 is OCD Awareness Week and I'm pleased to announce I'm running a giveaway for a bundle of 7 YA novels (6 plus my own) whose protagonists have OCD.

If you'd like to win these books for yourself or a loved one, visit http://www.bridgetteduttaportman.com/... and click on the raffle graphic. You can enter by subscribing to my monthly newsletter, and gain additional entries by sharing on Twitter. All entrants will receive a free short story, Rough Road Ahead, in which OCD meets Driver's Ed. Entrants must be 14 years of age or older and residents of the USA or Canada.

I'll be selecting the winner on October 17. I'll also be spotlighting one of these books each day for the next week, so follow me on Facebook and Twitter if interested. Thanks!