Sneaking out, staying up, and even a midnight swim, Quentin is determined to give Jade days-and nights-worth remembering.īut despite their storybook-perfect romance, every time Jade moves closer, Quentin pulls away. Jade hasn't been in suburbia long and even she knows her annoying (and annoyingly cute) next-door neighbor spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E.Īnd when Quentin learns Jade plans to spend her first American summer hiding out reading books, he refuses to be ignored. But nothing could have prepared her for Quentin. When Jade decided to spend the summer with her aunt in California, she thought she knew what she was getting into. Visit his website at of Sarah Dessen, Stephanie Perkins, and Jenny Han will delight as the fireworks spark and the secrets fly in this delicious summer romance from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.Ī fun and relatable summer read for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han." -School Library Journal Doug’s second historical novel, The Katyn Order, is a story of intrigue and danger, of love and human courage in the aftermath of one of history’s most notorious war crimes. Doug writes a monthly column on Poland ‘s experience during WW2, and has published articles on European resistance and escape organizations during the war. His debut novel, Night of Flames: A Novel of World War Two, won the 2008 “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the Wisconsin Library Association. Jacobson is an engineer, business owner and World War Two history enthusiast who has traveled extensively in Europe researching stories of the courage of common people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. So, three and a half years later, The Katyn Order hit the shelves, a story of intrigue and danger, of human courage, love, and a quest for redemption.ĭouglas W. No, no, I assure them, this’ll be a piece of cake. After all, they remind me, you’re not exactly Herman Wouk yet. How soon? Certainly not another six years. Night of Flames is doing well, so of course they want another book. I pitched it to the publisher, and they liked it enough to double the advance (though I still kept my day job). Yes, that’s it, a whole new story, new plot, new twists and turns. With new characters, fresh, full of their own issues, their own dreams and self-doubts. So, if it’s not a sequel, it’s got to be its own story, an important story, another one of those that had also been kicking around under my hat. After all, I’ve been researching it for decades. Damn! Well then, the same genre for sure, historical fiction, World War Two. After all, I know them better than my own kids. So, I dove into “the next one.” Is it a sequel? Of course, isn’t “the next one” always a sequel? Well, not always, but certainly the same characters. The next one? Good God! This one took six years!īut I couldn’t disappoint my readers, could I? Not after all that chicken salad. And what question do you suppose everyone asked. Before long I was giving book talks to Rotary clubs, library groups, WW2 historical clubs, eating chicken salad, and signing books. A book publisher sitting behind her desk in a swanky New York office says to a startled author, “We’d love to publish your book, do nothing to promote it, and watch it disappear from the shelves in two months.” Pinned to the wall in my office is a cartoon I clipped from the New Yorker several years ago. It’s the stark reality of book publishing in the 21 st century for anyone who’s not John Grisham. And I learned real fast who that would be. Someone has to get out and market the book. That was when I entered phase two of this quirky, murky industry. It was a real live book, on the shelves of Barnes & Noble, and the e-pages of Amazon. and the best of luck.” And then it happened. The rejection letters piled up, along with snappy little post cards that said, “Thanks, but. And getting it published was all I could think about. Then-after a hundred or so re-writes, critiques, and crumpled piles of paper-it was finished. When I wrote Night of Flames-the novel that’d been kicking around in my head for decades-I did it more to get it out of my mind and onto paper than with any real thoughts about getting it published. After finally nailing my butt to the chair and grinding out the novel that had been floating around in my mind for decades, and after finally getting it published, how can doing it a second time be any more difficult than falling off a log? Of all of the myths I’ve heard about writing and getting published, this one has always intrigued me.
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