Something Rotten's first good news

Something Rotten doesn't hit bookstore and library shelves until October, but I've just gotten word from Editor Liz that my YA murder mystery has been picked up by the Junior Library Guild! This is great news. The JLG has great taste in books, and often their picks predict what will be well-reviewed and popular in the coming months. And of course they had the great taste to choose Samurai Shortstop last year. :-)

I suppose it's getting on toward that time when reviews and buzz (if there is going to be any) will begin to trickle in. I'm glad I stopped biting my fingernails back in eighth grade. They'd be stumps already.