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Hi friends of Sad Perfect! I'll be appearing at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 10 (with Laurie Halse Anderson) and then on March 11 (with Amber Smith, and then in another panel with Dusti Bowling and Paul Mosier!) If you're local to the area, I would love to meet you! More details can be found on www.stephanieelliot.com under EVENTS and BLOG. Thank you!

Stephanie

An extended excerpt of Sad Perfect is available on FIERCE READS' website! Click on this link to read the first 24 pages!

Sad Perfect Excerpt

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All those who sign up in October will be entered to win the following YA novels:

THREE DARK CROWNS by Kendare Blake
SAINT ANYTHING by Sarah Dessen
THE FEVER by Megan Abbott
LOVE & Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan
THE AMATEURS by Sara Shepard
GILT HOLLOW by Lorie Langdon

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"In this heartbreaking and deeply personal novel, Elliot elevates the specific to the universal, and chronicles all of our struggles with the demons within. Sad Perfect is a book I couldn’t put down and one that will long stay with me. I loved it.”—Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things

I'm excited to share details about a young adult novel I've written that will be published next year:

From Publisher's Weekly:

Stephanie ElliotStephanie Elliot’s SAD PERFECT, a love story about an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V, which neither she nor her new boyfriend fully understand but which controls their lives in increasingly extreme ways, to Margaret Ferguson at Margaret Ferguson Books, by Adriann Ranta at Wolf Literary Services (NA).

About the book:

This is the story of an unnamed 16-year-old girl with ARFID, Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, an eating disorder with its own new category in the DSM-V. Ambitiously written in the second person, this is a heartbreaking, visceral perspective on disease, love, and recovery written with powerful lyrical strength.

Our main character has always struggled with ARFID, a disease she and her family don’t really understand. She can eat the good stuff, chips and candy and ice cream, but she can’t eat the stuff that keeps her alive, salads and pizza and meat. It’s like she has a monster in her throat, one that dictates what she can eat, when she can see her friends, and who she can date.

Then she falls crazy-mad in love with Ben. She hides her disorder from him, pretending that she’s fine, she’s just not hungry. She stops taking her medication because she’s happy now, she doesn’t need it. And the monster starts ruining her life.

She starts coping in more and more extreme ways, the monster tightening its grip on her throat, making her say mean things to Ben while she wastes away from malnutrition. Then an ex-boyfriend accuses her of attempting suicide, and her parents commit her to the Crazy House.

It’s only when everything seems lost that she can start piecing her life back together again. She finds love and support in unexpected places, and discovers that the real Crazy House might have been the place she’d called home.

Like Jennifer Niven’s All the Bright Places, Sad Perfect is a story about finding love through disease. It’s about imperfect families, love taken for granted, and how internal strength can conquer any monster.

Hi! I rarely post here and I don't even know who reads this but I've got a new novel out called A Little Bit of Everything Lost. I'm actually really nervous to share it because it might be a bit controversial. It might make some readers sad, angry or have feelings they didn't want to have while reading. But it's a book I wanted to write and I didn't hold back one bit when I wrote it. My mother has read it, so there's that. I'm kind of expecting some negative reviews. But I'm hoping it will also give some women some hope, and make some women feel good. Either way, I hope you'll take the time to read it and think about it. Here's the link, I've opened up in A Little Bit of Everything Lost, in every sense of the words...

http://www.amazon.com/A-Little-Bit-Ev...

Thank you very much.

Stephanie

Now through Sunday, August 5 you can download a copy of THE CELL PHONE LOT for free. At just 60 pages, this is a short and sweet love story about what happens when two people meet unexpectedly at the cell phone lot while they're waiting to pick up other people at the airport! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating the characters of Grant and Bridge!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cell-Phone-...

Thanks so much!

Well, hi goodreads friends! I'm trying this again! I was so pleased to see this unbiased review for WHAT SHE LEFT US today on the amazing CHICK LIT CENTRAL BLOG. It came from someone I am not related to, have not paid, did not owe a favor to, did not send flowers or give a gift to... she just said really great things about my NOVEL! Thank YOU Gail Allison and Chick Lit Central (now where to send the check!) haha http://www.chicklitcentral.com/2013/0... ... if you haven't checked it out, I hope this might entice you to read WHAT SHE LEFT US! Thanks goodreads friends!

I guess that if you follow me on goodreads, you may be notified that I've started a blog here? Maybe, maybe not? I'm not sure. Most likely, I'll only update when I have new info to share about upcoming books, which may be soon, as I'll be bringing out a new novel, THE LIFE AFTER, in June. I hope you'll stick around for it. Maybe I'll share a sneak peek of the book cover in a future post. If anyone is even reading this. I have no idea how to tell. Also, I have a book out called WHAT SHE LEFT US, a tender story about sisters and secrets and a little bit of love thrown in there to keep it interesting. You can read more here: http://www.amazon.com/What-She-Left-U.... Thanks for stopping by!