I’m sooo excited that I just finished the draft of my first ever YA novel, Blackheart Mountain!! Yay! I started it last May while Take the Reins was on submission and thought I’d work on it all summer while waiting for TTR news. Well, you guys know how that turned out so I had to shelve Blackheart while I did edits for TTR and wrote Chasing Blue. But since edits are mostly wrapped up on my end for CB and I felt like a change, I switched over to Blackheart and finally finished it.

It’s really, REALLY different from the Canterwood series, I must say. The protags are both sixteen, instead of thirteen, so that alone is a huge shift. Plus, they’re allowed to swear and engage in older teen behavior, so that’s fun to write! 🙂

All right. I’m going to watch a movie and then start the editing on Blackheart. Starting edits at page one is always a little scary. You have those moments of “what was I thinking when I wrote this?!” and then those rare “wow, I love that line” thoughts.

Anyone else writing both YA and MG and feel a difference? What’s your preference?

And go congratulate Lauren Barnholdt. Her new YA, Two-Way Street, is in its THIRD printing!