Super Secret Blurb Reveals!!!

I am so grateful to a wonderful artist and design team at Scholastic for a GORGEOUS jacket. The whole thing is just beautiful and I love it - and it's even better in *real* life. :-)

And today I can finally share my SUPER SECRET blurbs!

WHO IS THE DEMI-GOD OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WHO BLURBED MY BOOK???

None other than RICHARD PECK, Newbery winner and Newbery Honor winner and all-around inspiring and provocative author and speaker!!!

AND WHO IS THE DEMI-GODDESS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE WHO BLURBED MY BOOK???

The FABULOUS and SMART and BEAUTIFUL CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH, author of Tantalize and Eternal and CYNSATIONS!!!

I am overwhelmed by their generosity and their beautiful words on my book jacket.

THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, Richard and Cyn!!!

Here is the jacket with all its beautifulness, but for some reason Blogspot is not showing the right half.

Click on the link to get the full jacket. http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m303/chibimimiri/HealingSpellJacketjg.jpg

Update on the ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh post!

Last we left our heroine, she was weeping with excitement, jumping up and down around her bedroom "office" when she learned that the Demi-God Author of Children's Literature had asked her gorgeous editor to read her novel for potential endorsement . . . and editor immediately had said novel printed, bound and messengered to the DGA of Children's Lit.

Last week Gorgeous Editor gets a letter from Demi-God Author. He read the book! He loves the book! He's blurbing the book!!! It's true, it's REAL!!!!

Gorgeous Editor starts jumping up and down, calls heroine/writer at dinnertime who thinks it's an anonymous salesperson calling for $ or a survey and ignores the phone and continues stirring her spaghetti sauce and setting the table. Two hours later heroine listens to voice mail . . . and starts crying again. And bouncing off walls.

Gorgeous Editor says that she's been running around showing off the beautiful blurb to all her fellow editors who begin jumping up and down.

She shows it to the publicity dept who begins jumping up and down.

The blurb comes *in the nick of time* to be lovingly placed on the cover on its way out the door to becoming an ARC!!!!

Heroine's novel THE HEALING SPELL is blessed by the Demi-God and Demi-Goddess of Literature.

Heroine is off to make an offering of chocolate to the Gods . . .