A couple of fun things.
First, here’s the U.S. cover for my new book, Getting the Girl.
Could it be any cuter?
And lovely Patricia from Harper Canada just sent me the catalogue copy, which, I think, says it all. Or at least most of it:
Getting the Girl: A Guide to Private Investigation, Surveillance and Cookery
He’s a ladies’ man. The ladies just don’t know it yet.
Sherman Mack has just started grade nine at Harewood Tech and he already knows what he likes—cooking class, detective stories, and Dini Trioli. But there’s also plenty to dislike, including an extreme social hierarchy that makes all the usual high-school dynamics look like child’s play.
As in any high school, Harewood has the typical jocks, Trophy Wives, and scholars, but it also has one group everyone’s determined to avoid—the Defiled. No one knows who starts it or why, but sometimes a girl’s picture is posted on all the bathroom mirrors with a D written beside it, and just like that, she’s as good as invisible.
When Sherman suspects Dini is the next target, he’s determined to save her reputation…and that means going undercover. After all, this is one private eye who’ll do anything for the ladies—even if he doesn’t know the first thing about them.
Stay tuned because I’ll be posting little snippets from the book for your reading pleasure. Getting the Girl will be out sometime this fall.
Oh, and a huge thanks to book maven Richie Partington for choosing Another Kind of Cowboy as one of his picks! I’ve always wanted him to choose one of my books and I’m stoked that Cowboy made the cut.
Thanks also to Goody Niosi for the terrific article in Sunday’s Times Colonist.