I am soooo excited to reveal the cover art for my first novel, Wuftoom! I could not be happier with the way it came out — it perfectly captures the tone of the book while still leaving the look of the characters up to the reader’s imagination. Every author has heard horror stories about someone whose book cover was nothing like what they wanted, but I’m happy to say that the instant I saw this cover, I said, “Yes!”
This book started out four years ago as a picture that popped into my mind of a boy sitting in his dark bedroom, his body covered with and contorted by membranes. As he prepared to go to sleep, a creature slid toward him across the floor. I wrote a couple pages, and then I scribbled a one-page outline on a piece of notebook paper. At that point, I thought the story would be about 100 pages, just a novella that I had to get out of my system before going on to something else. But Evan soon took on a life of his own. Evan and his mother, the Wufoom, the Vitflys, and the other dark creatures all became real to me. Not real like my own mother (I’m not crazy!), but real like all the characters in literature I’ve discovered and loved. All I can hope is that very soon, they’ll become real for readers, too.
So far, the journey from manuscript to publication has been nothing but fantastic, thanks to the great people at Clarion, especially my editor Daniel Nayeri, my agent Kate McKean of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency, and all my supportive family and friends, especially the folks here at Teen Writers Bloc!
The book will be released on May 8, 2012. But there’s no need to wait. It’s already available for pre-order at Amazon and McNally Jackson!
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