Seeing Stars

Only this time I'm not talking about celebrities. My editor emailed me this morning to let me know that OH. MY. GODS. has received a STARRED (!!!) review from Publishers Weekly. (For anyone unaware, this is a HUGE deal ... especially for a popular/entertaining book like mine that doesn't lean toward literary.)

Here's the review:
Oh. My. Gods.
Tera Lynn Childs. Dutton, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-47942-0

Phoebe Castro's plans for her senior year undergo a radical makeover when her widowed mother returns early from a Greek vacation, engaged to a man she's just met and determined to whisk Phoebe off to the tiny Aegean island of Serfopoula, where her future stepfather runs the academy that Phoebe will attend. The twist: it's Plato's Academy, now filled with the descendants of the Greek gods and goddesses. Debut author Childs's creativity in manipulating mythology gives an otherwise familiar plot a fun, fresh update. The academy's cliques, for example, include the Zeus/Hera set (into “power, privilege, and partying”), the Poseidon crowd (surfers) and nerds, who descend from Hephaestus (“I think he's embarrassed by them,” one student confides). Add the romantic island setting, snappy dialogue, boys as handsome as Adonis, a few conniving (but ultimately harmless) villains and a protagonist who is a hard-core athlete as much as a girl who squeals about the possibility of a date, and together they make an effervescent, fast-paced read. Ages 12–up. (May)

And here's the link--which proves this is really, really real!

Flying high today!

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