Other

Seventeen-year-old Gwen hides a dangerous secret: she’s Other. Half-pooka, to be exact, thanks to the father she never met. Most Americans don’t exactly roll out the welcome mat for Others, especially not the small-town folks of Klikamuks, Washington. As if this isn’t bad enough, Gwen’s on the brink of revealing her true identity to her long-time boyfriend, Zack, but she’s scared he’ll lump her with the likes of bloodthirsty vampires and feral werewolves.

When a pack of werewolves chooses the national forest behind Gwen’s home as their new territory, the tensions in Klikamuks escalate–into murder. It soon becomes clear a serial killer is methodically slaying Others. The police turn a blind eye, leaving Gwen to find the killer before the killer finds her. As she hunts for clues, she uncovers more Others living nearby than she ever expected. Like Tavian, a sexy Japanese fox-spirit who rivals Zack and challenges her to embrace her Otherness. Gwen must struggle with her own conflicted identity, learn who she can trust, and–most importantly–stay alive.

STUPID CUPID by Rhonda Stapleton

• Publication Season/Year: Fall 2009
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Release Date: December, 22, 2009
• ISBN (paperback): 978-1-4169-7464-2

Felicity’s no ordinary matchmaker…she’s a cupid!

Felicity Walker believes in true love. That’s why she applies for a gig at the matchmaking company Cupid’s Hollow. But when Felicity gets the job, she learns that she isn’t just a matchmaker…she’s a cupid! (There’s more than one of them, you know.)

Armed with a hot pink, tricked-out PDA infused with the latest in cupid magic (love arrows shot through email), Felicity works to meet her quota of successful matches. But when she bends the rules of cupidity by matching her best friend Maya with three different boys at once, disaster strikes. Felicity needs to come up with a plan to set it all right, pronto, before she gets fired…and before Maya ends up with her heart split in three.

Stupid Cupid is book one of a trilogy.

Soul Enchilada

• Publication Season/Year: Spring 2009
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins
• Release Date: April 7, 2009
• ISBN (hardcover): 0061673013
• ISBN (paperback): TBD

Bug Smoot was thirteen years old when her grandfather put her soul up as collateral on his dream car –a classic 1958 Cadillac Biarritz.  Now, five years later, Papa C is dead and buried, and Bug is trying to make it on her own by delivering pizzas and staying one step ahead of her landlord.  And then the repo man arrives.  Only Mr. Beals–stinking to high heaven of rotten eggs and sporting leathery wings–is not just any repo man…just as Pesto, Bug’s longtime unrequited crush, is not just any car was attendant.

EVERLASTING by Angie Frazier

• Publication Season/Year: Summer 2010
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Release Date: June 1, 2010
• ISBN: TBD

As a young lady in 1855 San Francisco, Camille’s future is set: marry a man she isn’t sure she loves, or condemn herself to poverty; forever lust after a sailor a few social classes below her; never again sail with her beloved father, Captain William Rowen; and do it all with charm and grace—even if it is a sham.

But on her last sea voyage, Camille’s future opens wide. When her father and his Sydney-bound ship are lost in a gale, Camille’s new ambition is to cross the southern highlands of Australia and take back the map her estranged mother stole when she abandoned them 16 years earlier—a map to the enchanted stone of the legendary immortals. The stone can do exactly what Camille wants most: bring someone back from the dead.

Along with the sailor she is undeniably falling in love with, and an Australian card shark acting as their guide, Camille evades a curse placed on the stone and unravels the mystery behind her mother’s disappearance. When another death shakes her conviction to resurrect her father, Camille must choose what—and who—matters most.