LOVE IN THE CORNER POCKET
Scholastic/Point (Summer, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0545019915
ISBN-13: 978-0545019910

All’s fair in love and billiards.

At the pool table, Chloe is an expert. She can see all the angles, sink all her shots. But when it comes to love, she’s more of a novice—unlike her beautiful best friend Bridget, who plays to win.

But when Alex comes to town, he changes everything. Slick and confident, he makes Chloe feel things she’s never felt before, and he even beats her at pool. The trouble is, Bridget also has her sights set on him. Meanwhile, Chloe’s old friend, Theo, seems to want to be more than her pool partner.

When dealing with friendship and love, will Chloe be stuck behind the 8-ball? Or is this a game she can win?

 

DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK
Harcourt Children's Books (September, 2008)
ISBN-10: 0152064087
ISBN-13: 978-0152064082

Fashion statement...or something freakier?

The first installment of this creepy, campy paperback original series introduces the psychic Giordano sisters—and their very strange hometown, Nightshade, California.

Teenage girls are being mysteriously attacked all over town, including at Nightshade High School, where Daisy Giordano is a junior. When Daisy discovers that a vampire may be the culprit, she can’t help but suspect head cheerlead Samantha Devereaux, who returned from summer break with a new “look.” Samantha looks a little...well, dead, and all the popular kids at school are copying her style. Is looking dead just another fashion trend for pretty popular Samantha, or is there something more sinister going on? To find out, Daisy joins the cheerleading squad....

Dead is the New Black is a fast-paced mystery that combines romance, humor, sibling rivalry, and lots of attitude.

There's more DEAD ahead. Look for additional books in the series, DEAD IS A STATE OF MIND and DEAD IS SO LAST YEAR.

 

 

 

THE COMEBACK
Scholastic/Point (August, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0545088070
ISBN-13: 978-0545088077

Sophie Donnelly is one half of the most popular and powerful couple in school, until new girl Angie Vogel shows up and compromises everything. Angie steals Sophie's starring role in the school play, and, worse, her super-popular boyfriend. Sophie has been quickly dispatched to social Siberia, but not for long--she'll do anything it takes to make a triumphant comeback.

 

SOUNDTRACKS

for LOVE IN THE CORNER POCKET

• “Bizarre Love Triangle”
  —by New Order
• “Pink Moon”
  —by Nick Drake
• “Standing on the Edge of Love”
  —by B.B. King
• “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
  —by Joy Division
• “I Hate Myself for Loving You”
  —by Joan Jett and The Blackhearts
• "The Golden State"
  — by John Doe

for DEAD IS THE NEW BLACK

• “Here Comes Your Man”
  —by The Pixies
• “Heartbreaker”
  —by Pat Benatar
• “Evil Woman”
  —by ELO
• “Another One Bites the Dust”
  —by Queen
• “Dreamboat 730”
  —by Ringside
  

for DEAD IS A STATE OF MIND

• “Hungry Like the Wolf”
  — by Duran Duran
• “The Middle”
  — by Jimmy Eat World
• “Walking with a Ghost”
  — by Teegan and Sara
• “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”
  — by The Clash
  

for DEAD IS SO LAST YEAR

• “Monsters of Man”
  —by The Living Things
• “Leader of the Pack”
  —by The Shangri-Las
• “Lips Like Sugar”
  by Echo and the Bunnymen
• “Wild Thing”
  —by X
• “Rest My Chemistry”
  —by Interpol
• "Big Mouth Strikes Again"
  —by The Smiths