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Imagine yourself as a young mother, sitting down one Thanksgiving weekend to write a story,  just for fun because you love to write.  Now imagine yourself six months later sitting on the NY Times bestsellers list with that little story.   Unbelievable? Absolutely!  Scary?

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In November of 2009, St.Martin’s Press held a special call for “… fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult - sort of an ‘older YA’ or ‘new adult’.” It was the first time the term New Adult (NA) was used, and the first time there was any formal effort to define what is now

Darkness clung to her like a lover. Melly took no notice of the lack of visibility. She lived in darkness, slumbering most of the afternoon until night's cloak fell over London.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.

Can you envision it? Do you even want to? The sick diagnosing themselves... Homeowners attempting to repair electrical failures, figuratively and literally, in the dark...

Jill's 20-year old bosom heaved in anticipation as she longingly stared into Jack's 21-year old quivering blue eyes. She couldn't believe that she had just encountered the devastatingly handsome playboy's twenty minute-long soliloquy on how badly he wanted, no, needed her as his wife.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: A group of co-workers sitting together having coffee – morning or afternoon break, it’s all the same –  what do we talk about?  Inevitably, in my case, the conversation turns to food (and spouses and sex, but for today let's just say it's mostly food).