News

I’m thrilled to be able to share the official book trailer for Imaginary Girls—thanks to the marketing team at Penguin Teen and the amazingly talented designers at Mess. I’m mesmerized by this and I hope you are too. Sit back, take a minute, and WATCH THIS:

Yesterday we unveiled the redesign of novaren.com—and I’m so excited by all the new features.

I’m excited to let you know that my publisher has just made available the first four—yes, 4!—chapters of Imaginary Girls available online for free!

Stay tuned for a new look for this site! My web designer is hard at work on the redesign—including some new interactive elements featuring my upcoming release Imaginary Girls—and I’ll be excited to launch the new website by June.

I’m thrilled to announce that foreign rights for Imaginary Girls have sold in Australia and New Zealand to Pier 9, an imprint of the indie publisher Murdoch Books!

I’m thrilled to share the blurbs for Imaginary Girls, including a new one from celebrated surreal novelist Aimee Bender:

I’m updating the news on this site from snowy New Hampshire—I’m in the midst of my second residency at the MacDowell Colony (the first was in 2005), and it’s stunningly beautiful up here!

I’m thrilled to give an update on Imaginary Girls. We’re about six months away from the pub date, but things are already moving. In fact, they’ve gotten me a bit breathless. Click “read more” to find out just what’s going on with the book…

2010 was one big year for Imaginary Girls.

Visit my blog for a post about my thrilling moment of seeing the Imaginary Girls jacket for the first time and leave a comment there to let me know how you like the cover! Imaginary Girls is my debut YA novel, forthcoming from Dutton on June 14, 2011.