Signing, Speed-Reading, and Other Stuff

Today I have a signing at Turn the Page Bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland, with Nora Roberts, Donna Kaufman, Catherine Asaro, and debut author Jeanne Adams. I’m so excited. I’ll be back later with pictures.

The Speed Reading Book Nerd has taken a crack at Rites of Spring (Break). It’s spoilericious, but check it out if you dare. She’s been a fan of the last two, so it’s interesting to see her take on this one. I like it when people have questions about where I ended the story. ROSB has more of a cliffhanger ending than any of the others. (I get a lot of notes from folks thanking me for including the excerpt from the next book in the back — which, you know, thank my publisher.) There are a lot of questions facing Amy with this fourth book — the choices she made, her place in the society, her romantic life, and her future. She’s starting the book in a much more dire position than any of the previous ones, which I think is only fair, since she’s facing one of the biggest changes in her life. When I look back to the final month or two before my own graduation — I’m amazed I got through it. We were all so terrified of leaving school, the people and places we knew, finally being “grown up” — needing to make decisions about our real lives, our futures, all of it. And that’s what this last book is going to be about.

Anyway, off to get ready for the signing. Wish me luck!