Thursday, November 28, 2013

Celebrate the small things? Nah! This one's huge!



This post is part of VikLit's blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things. Head on over there to join up! 


So, what am I celebrating this week?




My cover!  It's so amazingly gorgeous.  Waiting two days to share it with you all was torture, but I think worthwhile.  So without further ado, allow me to show you the absolutely perfect artwork my publisher's cover designer came up with....



Isn't it gorgeous?

And here's a little about the book for those of you who may not have been around when I was angst-ridden on draft number 486 of The Boyfriend Plague.


Things at home are rough for fifteen-year-old Livvie Quinn. Jules, her beloved older sister is sick again after being cancer free for almost ten years.  Her mom becomes more frantic and unapproachable every day. School isn’t much better.  Just when she needs them most, her closest friends get boyfriends and have little time for Livvie – except to set her up on a series of disastrous blind dates.

Livvie seeks refuge in the art room and finds Bianca, the school ‘freak’.  Free-spirited and confident, Bianca is everything Livvie isn’t. Shaken by her mom’s desperation, her sister’s deteriorating condition, and abandoned by her friends, Livvie finds comfort and an attraction she never felt before with Bianca.

When their relationship is discovered, Livvie and Bianca become victims of persecution and bullying. School authorities won’t help and even forbid the pair to attend the Winter Formal as a couple. If Livvie defies them and goes, she risks expulsion and further ridicule from her classmates. At home, her mother’s behavior escalates to new levels of crazy and Jules is begging for help to end the pain once and for all.

While searching for the strength to make her life her own, Livvie must decide how far she’s willing to go for the people she loves.

An Unstill Life will be available through Musa Publishing on January 3rd.  You can add it on Goodreads too, if you want.  I'd love it if you did.

What are you celebrating this week?

17 comments:

  1. Congrats!! what a pretty cover, and an even wonderful story line. Totally adding this on Goodreads. :) Happy Friday, Kate!

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  2. I love the cover, and the novel sounds awesome; I've added it to Goodreads :)

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  3. I scurried right over and added your book on my GR TBR list. It looks so professional on there - it's such a classy and dynamic cover, just as classy and dynamic as the book itself. Congrats!!

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  4. Congratulations! It is an awesome cover :D

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  5. Great cover. Hope the book's a roaring success.

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  6. That is a great cover Kate! Congrats. I'm sure you're way excited about everything about it. Good luck!

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  7. I love your cover! Certainly a wonderful thing to celebrate this week!

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  8. That really is a cover worth celebrating. You were right. An Unstill Life is a better title than The Boyfriend Plague. Plus it sounds like a good story.

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  9. Gorgeous cover. Congratulations and best wishes.

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  10. Oh, that is a lovely cover! Congratulations! :)

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  11. I love the cover of your book, Kate. And it sounds amazing!

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  12. That's actually a pretty great cover.

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  13. Wahoo! Congrats. That's a wonderful cover, but I think what's inside is even better. I'm celebrating with cheese on your behalf. ;)

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  14. Yippee!!! What a fantastic cover for an amazing-sounding book! I'm going to add it to goodreads right now!

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  15. Thanks everyone! I'm pretty happy with it....

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  16. What a GORGEOUS cover and the book sounds amazing! I can't wait to read it!

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