An example of why timing is so crucial

From Publisher’s Marketplace, June 22:

Children’s/Young Adult:

Jamie Michaels’s KISS MY BOOK, story of a teen writing sensation who gets caught plagiarizing her debut novel, but finds redemption and romance when she escapes to a small town, to Krista Marino at Delacorte, by Michael Bourret at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (World).

I guess the big question is whether or not this book existed in April.