SOLD -- DEATH BY TOILET PAPER

I'm delighted to announce the sale of my new middle grade novel, DEATH BY TOILET PAPER, to Michelle Poploff, Vice President and Executive Editor at Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books.

Michelle Poploff

I'm forever grateful to my agent, Tina Wexler, at ICM Partners for helping me find the story I was trying to tell and selling it to a wonderful editor. 

Tina Wexler

 I've worked on versions of this story for years, and it's going to be a DOOZY!!!

Here's the announcement from PublishersMarketplace:  Donna Gephart's DEATH BY TOILET PAPER, about a contest-crazed seventh-grade boy whose attempts to save his family from eviction result in battling a bully, keeping a difficult promise and creating a wedding gown made entirely from toilet paper for his zany zeyde to wear.

Publication of DEATH BY TOILET PAPER is slated for FALL 2014.

And in other good book news:  OLIVIA BEAN, TRIVIA QUEEN comes out in paperback March 2013 -- in time to celebrate Jeopardy's! 50th anniversary and Alex Trebek's 30th anniversary as host.  

***  HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM A VERY HAPPY AUTHOR! ***

IF YOU GIVE A HOOT ABOUT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE . . .

You'll love this endlessly entertaining, fun and intriguing year-end, "Best of . . ." post by Travis Jonker, who is an elementary school librarian and then some!

2012 CHILDREN'S LIT:  THE YEAR IN MISCELLANEA BY TRAVIS JONKER

Travis Jonker

Dog vs. Shoe . . .

"That looks delicious."

"Shoe?  What shoe?  I don't see any shoe."

"You can't pin this on me.  Do you have any witnesses?"

In the epic battle of Dog vs. Shoe . . .

Dog = 1

Shoe = 0