Author Friends (and Their Books) are Springing Up!

One of the great things about being an editor is how many authors you meet in your everyday life. Not just the authors I work with, but those I meet at conferences, and at author events, and the many friends of friends as well. Today's post is about just two of those authors.

First off, how cool is it to have a client and friend like Dominic Carillo? Not only does he write intriguing books for young audiences (though adults will love them too!) but he has won awards for his books (like The Improbable Rise of Paco Jones which won a San Diego Book Award a couple years ago), and garnered plenty of acclaim and lots of "ink" about them.

His latest news is: one of his books, The Unusual Suspects, was just published in Bulgaria—in Bulgarian! Granted, Dominic lives in Bulgaria, but still...the book had to appeal to a publisher enough for them to negotiate the rights to re-publish it and get it translated into another language. Not a minor proposition, as I well know.

Anyway, here are the two covers for The Unusual Suspects. 

 

Nice, huh? I even got a mention in the Acknowledgments, in Bulgarian!

Another new book from an old friend is out this month. Girl Boner Journal is the companion to Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment which debuted last year. The books' author, August McLaughlin, is a podcast host, writer, speaker and all-around goddess of sexuality and good sense. She is someone I met once briefly at the Southern California Writers Conference and have stayed in touch with because I just love her chutzpah and style (and I applaud her mission of spreading knowledge about sexuality, too!).

The Journal is a sort of guided workbook that can help a willing reader to document and understand the process of exploring her sexuality, or lack of it. (Disclosure: I received a free ebook to read and review, which I am thrilled to do). In answering the compelling questions and reading the intriguing prompts, we can learn what we like and don't like, and what we want and don't want (both in bed and out of it!). Or, as August puts it, Girl Boner Journal will "help you take your sexual empowerment journey deeper." And, after all, who doesn't want that? 

     

Speaking of fullfillment and happiness, Russel and I are celebrating thirty (30!) years of wedded bliss at the end of May, so we are heading off on a short land-locked adventure...to a hidden desert getaway to—you know—get away! It may be raining and cool on Memorial Day weekend, but don't worry, we'll be warm and cozy in the hot tub, or hiking out among the flowers and rocks.

See you in June—hasta pronto!