Dear Readers,
 
Welcome to 2008!
 
I've never been very good at keeping my website updated, but with a new year at hand and with the help of my wonderfully stupendous new site designer I'm going to try to do better.

So what's coming up this year?
 
A lot of things!
 
January 8, my next Young Adult novel will be published by Simon & Schuster. SECRETS OF MY SUBURBAN LIFE is about a girl whose novelist mother is crushed to death by a stack of Harry Potter books. In the aftermath of that tragic event, she becomes involved in a sort-of mystery centering on an online predator.
 
On March 25, my first tween novel, appropriately titled ME, IN BETWEEN, will be released, also from Simon & Schuster. It's about a preciously well-breasted twelve-year-old who feels conflicted about her assets.
 
The fall season will bring three more books, although I don't have dates yet: My fifth book for Red Dress Ink, BABY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHOES, a screwball comedy about an obsessive-compulsive window washer who resorts to her father's trade - playing blackjack - to support her new infatuation with Jimmy Choos; and the first two volumes in THE SISTERS EIGHT series for young readers, written with the help of my novelist husband Greg Logsted and our daughter Jackie. TSE is about octuplets whose parents mysteriously disappear on New Year's Eve when Mom goes into the kitchen for eggnog and Dad goes out to the shed for more wood, after which the Eights, as they are known, must solve the mystery of what happened to their parents while endeavoring to keep the wider world from learning that eight little girls are living home alone.
 
And... there may be even more new books this year! So visit early, visit often and between books, you can always find me at one of my blogs. Cheers!