So, instead of listing things that make me happy this Monday, I've got some very happy news: I got a book deal! I signed with Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin, and my debut novel, CAPTIVATING, will be out in 2015!

This has been such a crazy whirlwind: I signed with my agent, the incomparable Alexandra Machinist of Janklow & Nesbit, and a few days later, I had an offer. Of course, it took me four years of dedicated writing to get here. And some terrible manuscripts. And some not-quite-good-enough manuscripts. And a whole lot of tears and moments of almost giving up. And even more support from this incredible writing and blogging community. Because I could not have--absolutely could NOT have--done this without y'all. So thank you so much, because you helped me make my dream come true.

Here's the description from Publisher's Weekly (because this explains the plot much better than I could):

For Penguin Young Readers Group’s Razorbill imprint, assistant editor Elizabeth Tingue took world English rights, in a two-book deal, to recent Harvard graduate Meredith Moore’s debut novel, Captivating. Moore, who Razorbill simply called a “history buff and world traveler,” was represented by Alexandra Machinist at Janklow & Nesbit. The book is about a girl named Vivian who was raised with one goal: to exact vengeance on the man who broke her mother’s heart two decades earlier. Enrolled at an English boarding school, Vivian targets an innocent senior named Ben as part of the revenge plot. But, Razorbill said, as the plan is set into motion, Vivian “starts to uncover secrets so dark and deadly that they threaten to unravel the very being that Mother worked so hard to create.”

Yay! Happy Monday, everyone!