Books

A Box of Fashion Disaster

Right after Sparkle Spa 9: Fashion Disaster was published, I went to Oregon. When I came home, there was a big box of books at my house. It’s always funny when some are packed upside down.

October 11 was Sparkle Spa #9 Day!

October 11 was the publication day for Sparkle Spa 9: Fashion Disaster. In that book Suzy gives Brooke a haircut…and inspires a whole lot of girls to donate their hair to be turned into wigs for kids who are sick. After I handed in my copy-edited pages last spring, I did it too. Here’s a photo to show you what I looked like before and afterward. 

Sparkle Spa in the Wild!

This was a big week for Sparkle Spa books getting spotted in the wild. A friend of mine found one of my books in a Little Free Library, and my mom found two of them at the New York Public Library. It’s so nice to see my books getting shared.

An Article from the UK

It was so lovely to see The Bookseller announce the deal for The Light We Lost in the UK. (HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins, will be publishing it there, releasing it in August 2017, just like Putnam will be doing in the US.)

Here’s the article, if you’d like to click for more info.

An Article from The Netherlands

Thanks to Google Alerts, I found out that there was an article written about me and The Light We Lost in Dutch! And thanks to Google Translate, I sort of found out what it said. Here’s the article. And here’s the translation:

Prometheus, following an auction acquired the rights to “The Light We Lost,” a novel about love written by the American author Jill Santopolo Book Journal reports.The novel has been sold to eight countries in three weeks, including Germany, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and Brazil. Remarkable, this international attention. It is not often that a major title is auctioned everywhere so quickly during the holiday season. The Light We Lost is the story of a love triangle, about a woman who must choose between two lovers: her great childhood sweetheart Gabriel, who left her as a war photographer to travel around the world but with whom she has always maintained a passionate relationship, and her husband Darren, with whom she now has two children. Jill Santopolo, according to her website, has twelve children’s books and two books for teens to her name. With The Light We Lost she focuses for the first time on adults as a target group. Source: Boekblad

There’s something especially exciting about being written about in a language I don’t know…

Announcing Some Foreign Editions

So thrilled to be announce that The Light We Lost will also be published in Germany, Denmark, China, and the U.K.! This is a screen grab of the announcement in Publisher’s Marketplace.

A Scan of the Publishers Weekly Deal Announcement

My Debut Novel for Adults!

Since 2012, I’ve had a secret. While I was writing the Sparkle Spa series and the Follow Your Heart books, I very slowly, very tentatively, was writing a novel for adults as well. And I’m so thrilled to announce that the novel I was working on sold to Putnam and will be published in the summer of 2017! Here’s a screen grab of the announcement as well as a link to its location on the internet. (!!!)

Sparkle Spa The Musical in The Citizen newspaper

New Hampshire’s newspaper The Citizen has an article about the Sparkle Spa musical! Looking forward to getting to watch the show this weekend (and perhaps getting my nails done too…).

You can check out the article here.

Book Four in French!

Look what came in the mail from Paris: Sparkle Spa #4 in French! In English it’s called True Colors, but in French, it’s called (I think) Enemy Sisters, which makes perfect sense as a title for this one.

A Sparkle Spa Bind-Up at Costco

I got a very exciting email from my grandmother the other day. She was shopping at Costco and found the bind-up of the first four Sparkle Spa books there! Here’s the picture she sent me (Aly and Brooke look like they’re in good company):