Jennifer Brown

So last year I joined The Debs, an amazing and awesome group of YA writers who debuted in 2009. You might recall that, as part of supporting the amazing and awesome Debs, I hosted a "Lunching with the Leads" blog tour on my blog. Sadly, 2009 is over, and we've all debuted. *sniffles and cues "Memory")

Happily, many of my fellow Debs have 2010 books coming out! So it's time to get the blog tour bus gassed up and rolling again. This time, however, I thought I'd focus on the author, rather than the main character, so I'll be asking each Deb three author-focused questions.

To launch the tour, I'm grilling Shani Petroff, author of the Bedeviled series, and the January 2010 release, Bedeviled: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Dress.

(In case you missed it, check out the trailer for her first book, Bedeviled: Daddy's Little Angel

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About Bedeviled: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Dress:

Angel Garrett knows two things for sure. The first is that she inherited her devil-dad’s powers. The second is that she wreaks havoc whenever she tries to use them. Especially  when she’s trying to impress her crush, Cole. Angel’s only solution is to stay as far away as possible from him until she learns how to harness this new gift. But how do you avoid someone and get him to ask you to the school dance at the same time?

My three Qs for Shani:

1) What non-writing activity most inspires you to write?

Hanging out with my friends from my old writing class. They’re fun, upbeat, and supportive, and when I get home I always feel like I can take on the world—or my manuscript!

2) Do you keep your rejection letters? If so, what do you do with them?

Most of my correspondences are through e-mail, and I don’t erase those. But I did get one rejection letter in the mail. I saved it for a few days,and then I couldn’t take looking at it any more. I tore it up into a zillion little pieces and threw it out.

3) What was the moment where it really sank in that you are officially "an author"?

Sometimes it still doesn’t feel real! But then something will happen—I’ll get a letter from a reader, or I’ll speak at a library and all of a sudden it will hit me that I am an author!

To purchase a copy of Bedeviled: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Dress, click here.

About Shani Petroff:

Shani Petroff is a writer living in New York City. In addition to tween and teen books, Shani writes for news programs and several other venues. When she’s not locked in her apartment typing away, she spends a whole lot of time on books, boys, TV, daydreaming, and shopping online. She has no devil lineage as far as she knows.

For more info about Shani, visit her at her (adorable) website: www.shanipetroff.com

(P.S. Shani will be back on the tour later this year, when her THIRD Bedeviled book hits the shelves! Awesome, Shani! Congratulations!)