I’m going to cut to the chase here. A lot of things have happened since I disappeared from the internet in September, including me getting a college degree then almost getting a job and then watching said job go to someone else.
But this happened too:
Kara Taylor’s PREP SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL, the story of a sixteen-year old Queen Bee who is kicked out of her posh Manhattan prep school and sent to a blue-blooded prep school outside Boston, only to find herself embroiled in a murder mystery that will eventually reveal the storied school’s disturbing secret history, pitched as GOSSIP GIRL meets TWIN PEAKS, to Anne Bensson and Brendan Deneen at Thomas Dunne Books, by Suzie Townsend at Nancy Coffey Literary & Media Representation (World).
This happened because of
1. An awesome, awesome agent who never gave up on me (even though at times, if I were her, my ass would be on the street, agent-less)
2. Two awesome editors at St. Martin’s who took a chance on a 21-year-old nobody, who, when Googled, looks like this:
(This is not what I look like. Unfortunately, I share my (real) full name with this guy.)
So yeah. My new badass author alter ego is Kara Taylor. In my head, Kara Taylor wears really cool boots and lights stuff on fire and gets kicked off transcontinental flights.
(I still have some tweaking to do with my badass alter ego image.)
So, thank you Suzie Townsend, thank you Anne and Brendan, thank you writer friends! To celebrate, I’m giving away two books by other St. Martin’s authors:
TEMPEST by Julie Cross SWITCHED by Amanda Hocking
and a pre-order of this here gorgeous book:
All you have to do to enter is comment and tell me which book is your first choice by 12 AM EST Monday, January 9th (3 winners). Unfortunately I can’t ship TEMPEST or SWITCHED internationally (except to Canada), but as long as the Book Depository ships to you, you can enter to win WHEN THE SEA IS RISING RED. If you tweet somewhere and leave me the link (or tweet at me- @karamtaylor1) I’ll give you an extra entry).
Okay, I think that’s it.