Jean Stringam's Blog - Posts Tagged "cousins"
How Not to Cry in Public has launched
I'm delighted to announce that How Not to Cry in Public: A Novel is available now. Just go to Amazon and there it is! It's longer than the other books, a really juicy read, and is definitely for the YA to adult reader. That's been the tricky part about getting the right reader to the right book in The Cousin Cycle.
In telling the story of one year in the life of this family of cousins, I tell it from four different sets of eyes. Four different cousins take you on the journey of how the year's events impacted them, and they are all different ages. The Hoarders has a 10-year-old male protagonist, Balance has a twelve-year-old female protagonist, and How Not to Cry in Public has a seventeen-year-old female protagonist. And when Regrets Tree on Fire comes out this summer, it has a sixteen-year-old male protagonist.
Usually a series has a single protagonist that either doesn't age at all, or ages linearly book by book, like Harry Potter. I guess that's why calling my books a "cycle" is better than calling them a series. "Cycle" suggests something rolling around like a year rolls around, and in The Cousin Cycle that's the one year of disastrous events that sets off so much discovery.
I'd love it if you would write a few lines about the book and rate it on either Amazon or GoodReads. That will make all the difference in whether other readers discover the book.
In telling the story of one year in the life of this family of cousins, I tell it from four different sets of eyes. Four different cousins take you on the journey of how the year's events impacted them, and they are all different ages. The Hoarders has a 10-year-old male protagonist, Balance has a twelve-year-old female protagonist, and How Not to Cry in Public has a seventeen-year-old female protagonist. And when Regrets Tree on Fire comes out this summer, it has a sixteen-year-old male protagonist.
Usually a series has a single protagonist that either doesn't age at all, or ages linearly book by book, like Harry Potter. I guess that's why calling my books a "cycle" is better than calling them a series. "Cycle" suggests something rolling around like a year rolls around, and in The Cousin Cycle that's the one year of disastrous events that sets off so much discovery.
I'd love it if you would write a few lines about the book and rate it on either Amazon or GoodReads. That will make all the difference in whether other readers discover the book.
