So, it turns out that my last book in the NEED series, ENDURE, is coming out in about a month in the U.S. and I still haven’t seen an advanced reader copy, but I hear the book is actually real already.... 




And I’ve decided that it’s time for some more information about the book and that means... spoilers. Yes, spoilers.


1. Something explodes in the book. The book itself does not explode so there is no need for warning labels.

2. Fire meets ice. This sounds like a Pat Benatar rock song from the 1980s, I know. 

When I was little, I thought my Aunt Patty WAS Pat Benatar because she was really kick-butt, and short, and kind of looked like her, but Aunt Patty insisted that she only owned a dance studio, and that it was not a secret cover for her true rock star identity.

I still don’t believe her.

3.  Nobody eats strudel with a guinea pig or a manatee. I really love manatees, so I was kind of tempted, but I didn’t think it really worked with the whole story arc thing. Damn, story arc. 

4. No characters from Hunger Games or Buffy or Twilight or Walking Dead or Harry Potter make any surprise appearances. Although, to be honest, I totally wanted to write in Professor McGonagall as a love interest. 

 I know she thinks she should be. 

5. The book is about love, but not the kind of love that makes you think TEAM WHOEVER or inspires conjoined names. It’s about the other kind of love. There’s romantic love too, though. Don’t worry.

Bonus: I knew the very last line of the main part of the book from the time I first started writing NEED. :) 

There! I hope that helps! 

I’m going to go back into my hidey hole and be terrified about the book now. This is what I do. Not all authors are this neurotic, I swear. :)