Writer Unboxed

Look. Ain’t it purty?

This is the cover of my forthcoming CONFESSIONS OF A FIRST DAUGHTER, which releases September 1. My editor at Working Partners LTD sent it over a few months back, but we’d only gotten permission from HarperTeen to release the image last week. I’m thrilled. The image is sophisticated yet fun, just like the book, and I’m hoping the teen market will gobble it up.

Allow me to share tidbits from our mailbox. As always, we do not endorse any promotions, contests, or services that land in our webmail box, but we pass them along to you in the hopes that you might find them useful.

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Write on!

Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She has written two novels under the pseudonym Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter--both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President's teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins.

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