Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Vampire Wire's Marta Acosta Makes Her YA Fiction Debut June 2012

I've been a fan of Marta Acosta's Vampire Wire blog for years, and Marta has been sharing words of advice and wisdom with me as I navigate my own way down the long and difficult road toward publication (she's the author of the Casa Dracula series).  I'm thrilled to see that today she announced that Tor/MacMillan will publish her first venture into young adult fiction, Dark Companion, in June 2012.

The Dark Companion synopsis:

When foster teen Jane Williams is invited to attend elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls and escape her violent urban neighborhood, she thinks the offer is too good to be true. She's even offered her own living quarters, the groundskeeper's cottage in the center of the birch grove.

Something's not quite right about the school -- or is it Jane? She thinks she sees things in the birch grove at night. She's also beginning to suspect that the elegant headmistress and her sons are hiding secrets. Lucky is the gorgeous, golden son who is especially attentive to Jane, and Jack is the sardonic puzzling brother.

The school with its talented teachers and bright students is a dream for a science and math geek like Jane. She also loves her new friends, including hilarious poetry-spouting rich girl, Mary Violet. But the longer Jane stays at Birch Grove, the more questions she has about the disappearance of another scholarship girl and a missing faculty member.

Jane discovers one secret about Birch Grove, which only leads to more mysteries. What is she willing to sacrifice in order to stay at this school...and be bound to Birch Grove forever?

For more info, head to vampirewire.blogspot.com. Congrats, Marta!

2 Comments - Join the conversation:

Marta said...

Hi, Catherine, thanks for mentioning my upcoming book! And I'm always happy to yammer about the trials and tribulations on the road to publication with you!

Catherine/Suburban Vampire said...

You're welcome, Marta. I'll gladly share further news about your book when it becomes available.

I'm still on that long and arduous road to publication, now in the waiting stage, hoping to eventually have some news.

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