Okay, I know I said my first and second blogs would be about how I got my book deal, but I have to postpone Part II of that story to tell you that... I am SO EXCITED to share the US cover of The Ethan I Was Before with all of you, at long, long last! Here it is, in all its gorgeous glory! I think every aspiring author likes to daydream about what the cover of their one-day book might look like. And when I got my deal for Ethan, it was one of the first things I thought about. I vacillated back and forth between kid-on-Christmas-morning excitement and oh-God-what-if-Mom-only-got-me-socks-this-year dread. (What if it ended up being a Photoshop hatchet job? What if they used comic sans font for
First, an admission. I probably should have started this blog long ago, but I had other things to do (i.e. catching up on seven glorious years of RuPaul’s Drag Race--thanks for giving me life, ladies--and learning how to do The Twitter) and never got around to it. So my first two posts will really be a whistle-stop tour of how THE ETHAN I WAS BEFORE (caps = manuscript that lives in your computer) became The Ethan I Was Before (italics = book that will actually one day live in a bookstore). Bear with me… Cue: back in time sound effects/screen wave. It was the spring of 2014. I was working for a public school in Washington, D.C. and gearing up for a transatlantic move. It was a really hectic t
