Psst! Are you looking for Leslie Connor? The one that writes books for kids? Well, you found me. Welcome!

My big news is that I’ve been interviewed at the blog of the brilliant, hard-working Linda Crotta Brennan. (Apparently, having a new book of her own come out this spring wasn’t keeping her busy enough.) Linda read my novel Crunch. She had terrific, thoughtful questions for me. To see the interview and to learn more about Linda’s book, When Rivers Burned: The Earth Day Story, please visit:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/725671.Linda_Crotta_Brennan/blog

In case any of you are wondering what I am working on, the answer is a teen novel. It will be released by HarperCollins, Katherine Tegen Books, Summer 2014. (In life and the publishing world that isn’t really so far away.)

The title is:
The Things You Kiss Goodbye

A one-sentence synopsis of the book might go like this: 

A sixteen-year-old girl struggles to navigate a pair of relationships; one abusive, the other, forbidden.

I’m promising readers a contemporary story about some of the hardest tests of the human spirit. I hope you’ll laugh; I bet you’ll cry. At the heart, are themes of abuse, first love, family, and the struggle for independence and self-reliance.

In other good writing news, Crunch is chugging right along out there  and has been nominated for the following state reading programs for 2013 (I am so proud!):

~Indiana Library Federation’s Young Hoosier Book Award Program

~Georgia’s Georgia Book Awards

~Oklahoma Library Association’s Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Award. 

~Hawaii’s Nene Award Suggested Reading List.

~Washington State’s Sasquatch Reading Award.

Sincerest thanks to the readers, and to every hard-working volunteer on the committees that select the books.

Thanks for dropping by~ L.C.