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YA to be published!
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.
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.
First Blurb for Sad Perfect is In!
"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
Receive Updates on Sad Perfect & Win Some Books!
Hi! If you'd like a shot at winning 6 awesome YA novels AND sign up for my monthly newsletter, head to www.stephanieelliot.com!
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
You'll receive news about Sad Perfect and in the November issue you'll get a sneak peek at an excerpt plus a free download of The Cell Phone Lot!
Happy Reading!
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
You'll receive news about Sad Perfect and in the November issue you'll get a sneak peek at an excerpt plus a free download of The Cell Phone Lot!
Happy Reading!
Sad Perfect EXCERPT!
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
Thanks for your interest in Sad Perfect!
Sad Perfect Excerpt
Thanks for your interest in Sad Perfect!
Tucson Book Festival
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
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