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First THANK YOU to Eric Smith and Paste for hosting my cover reveal. What follows is a little information about the cover, the book, and, if you're still reading, an ARC giveaway!

THE COVER

I knew, from the onset, that I wanted the Boomerang cover to be, for lack of a better word, obvious. I didn't want the fact that it was about two boys in an intense and complicated relationship to be hidden. I didn't want their heads to be cut off, or for the cover to simply be a beautiful illustration. I...

ABOUT Helene:

I'm the author of THESE GENTLE WOUNDS (Flux 2014 - named one of Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2014 as well as one of Epic Reads 30 Books That Will Change Your View of the World), WHAT REMAINS (Flux 2015) and BOOMERANG (Sky Pony 2018). I'm agented by the amazing Lauren MacLeod of the Strothman Agency. When I'm not writing fiction, I work as a communications manager and freelance journalist.

ABOUT Beth:

I’m a freelance editor and ghostwriter, and my YA fiction is represented...

Tap. Tap. Tap. Is this thing on?

I know it’s been a while, blog friends.  And while I haven’t done a lot of publishing stuff lately, per say, I’ve been keeping up with a lot of things on the writing front.

So, here are some things that did happen:

sold in Bulgaria to AMG (Bulgarian title and cover to come), who published there last year. Given that my daughter was born in Bulgaria, I couldn’t be happier about this.  Also, the Bulgarian bloggers ha...

Throughout PitchWars, a number of writers expressed interest in a post about critique partners and since I’ve just agreed to collaborate with a new CP (YAY, ME!) this seemed the right time. (A shout-out here to the AMAZING Beth Hull who is not only my PW co-mention but my long-time CP and as fantastic a writer/editor as anyone could work with).

So…you know how certain things bug you? Silly things that shouldn’t, but that really affect you just as much as nails on a chalkboard? That’s how muc...

The queries have been read, the manuscripts requested, our mentee chosen.

But seriously....this was difficult. We received SO MANY fantastic entries, and honestly, I don't want to stop working with them.

SO.......If you entered PitchWars and would like a query critique, a summary critique, or a full developmental edit (covering plot, pacing, characterization, and voice), check out my and let me know that you entered PitchWars for a 10% discount. If you subbed to me, I'll rai...

ABOUT Helene:

I'm the author of THESE GENTLE WOUNDS (Flux 2014 - named one of Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2014 as well as one of Epic Reads 30 Books That Will Change Your View of the World), WHAT REMAINS (Flux 2015) an BOOMERANG (Sky Pony 2017). I'm agented by the amazing Lauren MacLeod of the Strothman Agency. When I'm not writing fiction, I work as a communications manager and freelance journalist.

ABOUT Beth:

I’m a freelance editor and ghostwriter, and my YA fiction is represented by Logan Garr...

When I heard that Eric Smith was putting together an anthology on adoption, I knew I had to be a part of it. The Publisher's Marketplace post is below, but I strongly urge everyone to head over to to read his heart-felt description of the project.

As for me, I'm off to write a story.......

So first, this: I’ve been writing this post in my head for more years than I care to count. But still, unlike virtually everything else I’ve written, I can’t tell you where the idea for BOOMERANG came from. One day �

So as a Pitch Wars newbie, I admit that I began correctly with color-coded spreadsheets and folders and sub-folders to track my submissions.

And then it all fell apart. It fell apart because I was requesting fulls and reading fulls and sending queried and manuscripts to other mentors, hoping they’d fall in love with them. And it fell apart because I was being sent manuscripts from other mentors who hoped that I would fall in love with them.

So that’s a long-winded way of saying that these st...

I'm SO thrilled to be mentoring this year. I've been in awe of the entire Pitch Wars event for the last couple of years and I'm excited to be throwing my hat into the ring of amazing authors and writers and mentors and agents.

ABOUT ME:

I'm the author of THESE GENTLE WOUNDS (2014 - named one of Buzzfeed's Best Books of 2014 as well as one of Epic Reads 30 Books That Will Change Your View of the World) and WHAT REMAINS (2015). I'm agented by the amazing of The Bent Agency. When I'...