UPDATE: Winner of the Marianne Mancusi Razor Girl giveaway is: CAROL THOMPSON. Carol, drop me an email with your mailing address to receive your book!
I just got some great news: Rites of Spring (Break) has sold in Brazil! This summer, Brazilian publisher Editora Record published SOCIEDADE SECRETA – ROSA & TÚMULO (a.k.a, Secret Society Girl), with plans to follow up with Under the Rose and now, the third book in the series! I’m so excited and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that they’ll want to finish up the series with Tap & Gown.
Rites of Spring (Break), like all the books in the Secret Society Girl series, was edited by the talented Kerri Buckley at Bantam Dell.
So it seems only fitting that today’s giveaway should be another Buckley discovery, JESSICA Z, by debut novelist Shawn Klomparens. I was so impressed by this book. It’s set in a world we could be living in tomorrow, a San Francisco that’s as real as the hills and the food and the artists, but dangerous, too. It’s about love and art and lithography and terrorism and saying too much more than that would probably give it all away. The hopefully spoiler-free version is that the titular Jessica Z works in advertising, has an undefined relationship with her upstairs neighbor, and is not entirely sure how to deal with the fact that her morning commute might be life-threatening. And then she meets a passionate lithographer who turns her world upside down.
One of the reasons I really identified with Jessica is that, like her, I’ve also been an accidental model. Jessica at one time poses for an upmarket women’s catalog, and as the book progresses, she agrees to be the subject of her intense new lover’s latest art project.
Did I mention this book is very, very sexy? Part women’s fiction, part discourse on the intersection of love, politics, and art, and part thriller, it’s definitely worth checking out!
Leave your name in the comments to win one of TWO copies of this great debut novel!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Oh, that certainly sounds like a good one!
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September 18th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Sounds interesting!
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September 18th, 2008 at 7:44 am
Congrats on publishing in Bazil. Jessica Z sounds really great.
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:32 am
This sounds awesome!
And congrats on the sale!
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September 18th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Sounds like a very interesting book, Diana. And congrats on RSB selling in Brazil — awesome!
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September 18th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Congrats on selling in Brazil! What is it about Latin languages that makes everything sound sexier?
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September 18th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Ooooh!! I’ve been excited about this book since I first heard about it!! Can’t wait to read it! Yay on Brazil!
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September 18th, 2008 at 11:46 am
“Carol, drop me an email with our mailing address to receive your book!”
Well, if she lives with you, can’t you just hand it to her? Or, did you get lost and can’t find your new house?
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September 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Thanks, Pat. Man, what woudl I do without the typo police?
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September 18th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
I don’t know how you would ever survive.
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September 18th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Ooh, sounds like another good one! I love hearing about new books to add to my “to read” list.
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September 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Wow. I remember you telling me about this a while back. Glad it’s finally out and really hoping I win
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September 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Oh this sounds right up my alley! Cant wait to read!
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September 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Sounds like a great combination and an intriguing read.
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September 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Lithography? I’m so there.
Congrats on the Brazil publication!
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September 19th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Congrats on Brazil! You’re really taking the World by storm!
You had me at “passionate lithographer.”
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September 19th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Sounds like a very interesting book. I love hearing about new books to add to my list.
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September 19th, 2008 at 10:51 am
This books sounds unique – I’m glad there weren’t any spoilers in your review. Thanks for the entry!
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