When I first started reading, romance novels is what I started with. It was the genre that made me into the passionate reader I am today. Now that my love of reading has grown to include the YA genre, I’m thrilled to see a romance novelist turn YA novelist because I seriously think that the romance authors have a lot to offer the YA genre.
They write incredibly well and though I haven’t read any of Roxanne St. Claire’s work, I have friends who are avid fans of hers and so I’m confident that what she’ll bring to the YA table will be fantastic and I cannot wait to give her story a go!
I read about this on The Book Case and here’s what they announced (straight from the site):
Roxanne St. Claire, author of 25 books—including category romance; romantic suspense; chick lit; and Edge of Sight, one of BookPage’s romance picks for November—has signed a deal to write her first YA novel. It’s called Don’t You Wish and will be published in 2012 from Random House’s Delacorte.
Here’s the Publisher’s Marketplace description:
Roxanne St. Claire’s DON’T YOU WISH, in which a middle-class, under-popular, painfully average teenage girl wakes up in an alternate universe where her mother married a wealthy man and her every wish has come true—with complications.
This week, Publisher’s Marketplace announced that producers Jeff Franklin (Full House) and Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman, Princess Diaries) have optioned the rights to produce a movie of the book.
Romance columnist Christie Ridgway has praised St. Claire’s “hot romance and sizzling suspense.” Are you a fan of her books? Are you excited by this new book/potential movie?
Such good news to start the week off!
..and that’s your scoop!
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