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Notes from Gigi and Meg as we hibernate during Winter 2012-13

Hi Girls of Summer fans:

It’s almost time to turn our clocks ahead, and you know what THAT means!  Summer is right around the corner.

We’ve had a terrific winter. Gigi released her historical novel, Come August, Come Freedom, and Meg’s new Young Adult novel, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, is due in bookstores this month. More important, we have been hard at work getting our new Girls of Summer list together. Expect the online launch  of the 2013 list on June 10, 2013.

If you’re anywhere in the mid-Atlantic, why don’t you plan on joining us for the live launch on Tuesday, June 18, 2013,  7 pm? We’ll be at Library Park, right behind the main branch of the Richmond Public Library,  101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, VA.

With thoughts of sun, sand, and good books,

Gigi and Meg

March 8, 2013

Updated 8/26/12

Our 2012 weekly giveaway winners: 

Rosa Gonzalez, Mcallen, TX; Alice Longaker, Greely, CO: signed bookmarks from author Laura Resau (The Queen of Water)

Amy Truter, San Jose, CA; faux pearls and autographed copy of Just Being Audrey by Margaret Cardillo

Amanda at Vivalabooks, Dallas, TX; autographed copy of Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

What? You didn’t win anything? Make a note: Read the weekly Q & As next season and post a comment. You’ll automatically be entered to win something from the drawings. 

Thanks to all of you who came to the live Launch for Girls of Summer 2012!   

More than 100 girls, moms, librarians, teachers, and friends!

Our library friends and our special guest author Wendy Shang (2nd from left)

Library branch manager Patty Parks, Gigi Amateau and Meg Medina

Check back every Friday because starting June 22 we’ll have interviews and Q & A’s with:

• Maribeth Boelts
• Julia Denos
• Jo Knowles
• Kate Messner
• V. Rossi
• Wendy Shang
• Lila Quintero Weaver
• Dori Jones Yang
• and more fabulous people!