Hey everyone,
I want to start by saying THANK YOU to all of you who have bought, read, and written to tell me you’ve enjoyed the books. It means more than you will ever know.
And now I have a lot of news to share and not a lot of time to share it cleverly, so I’m just going to put it out there if that’s okay.
1. We got word yesterday that CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY will be on the NY Times Bestseller list again next week! How happy does that make me? So insanely, giddy happy.
2. I can FINALLY tell you guys officially that yes, there will be a third Gallagher Girls book! We just finalized the deal, and I’m thrilled to be continuing the series with Hyperion, my publishing home.
However, I can’t tell you any details about the book or even what the official title will be (we’re calling it GG3 for now.) I don’t know an exact publication date yet but it will (sadly) probably be AT LEAST a year away (and likely longer).
3. Not only have I sold GG3, but I’m also over-the-moon excited about Project K!
What is Project K? Well, it’s the codename I gave for a new project I was working on a few weeks ago, but since the project has been sold I now consider it declassified, so you guys can read all about it!
Project K isn’t really the title (I was just using that for blogging purposes.) In truth, it doesn’t have a title yet, but I call it KAT.
Why? Because it’s about a girl named Kat.
Who is a thief.
It’s hopefully the first book in a new series pitched as Ocean’s 11 meets Veronica Mars, about a girl from a family of high-end conmen who must choose between leaving the family business or saving her art thief father by pulling one last heist.
I’m excited about Kat. I mean…really, really excited. And I hope you guys are as well.
3. And I guess my final piece of news is that in the very near future I’ll be quitting my day job in order to write full-time! Yay. It’s not often a person gets to do what they wanted to do when they were 12.
And very soon I’ll be one of those people.
The last thing I’ll say is that I know you guys have TONS of questions about the girls. And the boys. And the history of Cammie’s family. And Cammie’s future.
Well, let me just say that all of those questions have answers, but I don’t think you want to know them…not yet.
I mean, do you really want to know if/when Bella from the Twilight books will become a vampire? Or if Princess Mia from the Princess Diaries will end up with her high school boyfriend, Michael? Or if Stephanie Plum (from Janet Evanovich’s amazingly funny series) will marry Morelli or Ranger?
Sure…we may WANT to know those things, but do we really want them TOLD to us? Outright? Ruined?
Or would you rather keep reading?
I don’t think you REALLY want the answers to those questions, so that’s why I’m not going to give them to you.
I will, however, say that I do plan to do several more books and that each one of those books will be important in answering all of those questions. And more.
You guys will just have to trust me when I tell you that the Gallagher Girls have only just begun to fight.
Good night, everyone. And happy reading!
Ally