School's Out for Summer. School's out for EVA!

Today is my last day at Saint Ann's where i have spent the last year as a 7th and 8th grade middle school teacher. It has been, in a word, heaven. Talking with brilliant kids about well written books all day is heartwarming, mind-expanding, and totally decadent. I want to write lots about my experience with them, and I will. But I have other news.

I have sold my novel (again, but this time to the right place) to Little A and they will be publishing it June 2016! This summer I will be bent over the computer spinning straw into gold, or at least looking like a disgruntled gnome. I have decided to share this strange process with all of you (meaning my mother, hi Mom!). So this is just a brief post to say, please stay tuned. I will talk all about my miraculous editor who has undone the tangle of a novel and given me a thread to lead me out of the maze. I will talk about what it is like to dismantle and reassemble something I have been working on for eight years. I will talk about how I want to ignore everything in my life in order to do it. I will talk about how I am devastated to be leaving Saint Ann's and also feel like it is a gift. TIME! There is nothing harder to find.