Published

Enthusiasm

Hardback	Paperback	Italian edition!

“Winsome and witty, … Enthusiasm has the makings of an instant classic.”
—Time Magazine

In the works

The Grimm Collection
This is what I’m working on now. It’s about four high school students—two girls and two guys—who work in a library and discover a collection of magical objects in the basement. My contract says I have to turn in a first draft to my editor by May, 2008. It’s possible she’ll want me to change the title, but I hope not.

More Enthusiasm: The Sequel
I’m not planning to write this. Think about it: what could happen in a sequel? It would be very boring unless the couples broke up, and that would be too sad to bear.

Here are some other ideas I’m considering; please write and tell me which one you think I should work on next:

• A historical novel set in New York and Europe in the 1870s, about a 17-year-old who finds herself widowed the day after her wedding and decides to go on the honeymoon anyway, touring Europe with her new sister-in-law and her husband’s cousin.
• A historical novel set in New England and New York in the 1840s, about a girl who runs away from her scary adoptive family and makes her way home to her sister, an opera singer in New York.
• A fantasy about two sisters who are witches, although the younger one hates magic and wants to be a scientist instead. Their mother, also a witch, is trying to save the world from an evil magician, but she’s going a little overboard, so the girls have to save it from their mom trying too hard. I’ve written about half of this one already.
• A romance about a girl who falls for a Dusk Walker, one of the elfin people who live in New York’s Central Park. He likes her back, but the queen of the Dusk Walkers orders him to kill her.