I promise, my next post is going to be
a) not very long from now, and
b) neither promotional nor self-aggrandizing in nature

But that said...the ARCs for CRASHED are HERE!!!!

And here is how excited I am.



Well, you'll just have to extrapolate how excited I am. I'm smiling. (I'd let you see my face, but my camera's broken and thus I had to take this picture using the camera on my computer, and I think we all know that technology is about as far from flattering as you can get...)

The book comes out in September, and someday soon I'm going to stick an excerpt up on my website, but in the meantime, here's the first official taste of what this thing's going to be about:

NO ONE TO TRUST...EVERYTHING TO LOSE

Before the accident, Lia Kahn was happy.
Before the accident, Lia Kahn was loved.
Before, Lia was a lot of things: Normal. Alive.

Human.

Lia no longer believes in before. Six months after the crash that killed her, six months after being reborn, Lia has finally accepted her new reality. She is a machine, a mech, and she belongs with her own kind. It's a wild, carefree life, without rules and without fear.  Because there's nothing to fear when you have nothing left to lose.

But when a voice from her past cries out for revenge, everything changes.  Lia is forced to choose: between her old life and her new one. Between humans and mechs. Between sacrificing the girl she used to be and saving the boy she used to love.

Even if it means he'll hate her forever.

It seems like forever until this book actually comes out, but I am now officially counting the days...

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go celebrate this and some other excellent (but more secret) news. (To my beloved editor, if you're reading this, "celebrate" means "write my new book." It definitely does not mean "go out in the sunshine and buy myself some new summer dresses." I don't know where you got that idea.)