*COVER REVEAL* YA Contemporary

I’m delighted to get to share the cover of my new Young Adult Contemporary novel today!

This book marks a lot of firsts for me. It’s my first non-romance book (though there will still be a little kissing, no worries!), my first Young Adult novel, and the first book of my original fiction that I am going to serialize, posting it one chapter at a time online at no cost to anyone who would like to read it. It’s an all-new publishing experiment for me, and I’m really excited about the possibilities.

I was inspired to write this book by three things:

• A fire in my gut to transform widespread apathy into activism after Trump’s election in 2016
• By the first Women’s March I attended in 2017, organized by two very memorable teen girls
• And by two quotes I saw chiseled in stone at the Anne Frank memorial in the Idaho town where I live.

I’ll be sharing the full story of all of those inspirations a little later on my social media as I upload more chapters. For now, are you ready to see the cover?

Star in TV’s hottest teen series or start a revolution…
Why not do both?

Brooklyn has a role on a blockbuster teen TV series, but she’s the overlooked sidekick who never gets the good lines. Cade is the brooding star all the girls swoon for, and of course it’s just when he starts to notice Brooklyn that democracy in America is falling apart. The real-life government is beginning to act way too much like the one in her dystopian TV show.

At first, all Brooklyn wants is a chance to explore her connection with Cade. But there’s little time for that when her government is tossing innocent people out into the streets to fund their greedy war. As protests boil into violence, the media smothers any reports of unrest, and Brooklyn discovers her voice has power. Soon, she’s shouting into a megaphone instead of typing into Twitter.

When corrupt officials start rewriting her TV show as propaganda, Brooklyn must choose. She can keep the dream life that’s finally at her fingertips, or she can risk it all on the slim chance that one girl can actually save a whole country.

Snatch up this YA Contemporary for an adrenaline-fueled peek at the power of story to change the world.

I loved this cover, because it shows a girl whose world has been turned upside down, a girl at odds with her city and her world about what is real and what justice should look like. Brooklyn and her government and media are battling over what she sees happening on the street versus the story the media is spinning for the people. Alongside that, the book itself is split into two versions of reality: Brooklyn’s and the POV of Jessie, who is the fictional sidekick character Brooklyn plays on a dystopian TV show.

I think it’s cool how the cover symbolizes the two sides of her reality.

I’ll be sharing the first chapter of this really soon, so stay tuned!