Kim vs. the Mean Girl: blurb

“Even when Hannah acts like a she-devil, she manages to come out looking like Maria from The Sound of Music.” – Kim Long

“Kim Long without a story to read was like a dog without its chew toy.” – Hannah Marshak

As many of you know, I planned to release Kim vs. the Mean Girl, the contemporary young adult prequel to Blogger Girl, last summer. The time frame was upended when my former publisher closed its doors, but I had every intention of putting it out at some point. I’m excited to be able to say the time is almost here.  Since my new publisher, Henery Press, doesn’t publish young adult, I’m going to self-publish it this spring. I like the idea of having complete control over the pricing as well as the freedom to co-promote with the adult books in the series. Self-publishing is also on my bucket list of things to do even though it scares me.  I’ve yet to set a precise date for a couple of reasons. I need to meet a late March deadline to return my next romantic comedy to my editor at Henery Press first. Also, I’ve never self-published before and I have no idea what I’m doing! Thankfully, I have friends who’ve assured me they’ll walk me through it. But I’m hesitant to put a publishing date in writing until I’m confident I’m ready.

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I’d like to release sometime in April, but it doesn’t mean I can’t share the blurb, cover art, and excerpts before then. Since the cover is still “in progress,” I’ll start with the blurb:

High school sophomore, Kim Long, is no stranger to the “mean girl” antics of Queen Bee Hannah Marshak. When Hannah steals Kim’s diary and in front of the entire class reads personal (not to mention humiliating) entries Kim wrote about her crush, Jonathan, Kim vows to enact revenge.

Kim and her loyal best friend, Bridget, come up with the perfect plan to put the evil Hannah in her place once and for all. But will their scheming have the desired effect of getting even, or will Hannah emerge more celebrated by her peers than ever?

Kim vs. The Mean Girl can be read as a young adult standalone novel, but it is also a prequel to the popular Blogger Girl adult romantic comedy series and is set in 2000. Told in the duo perspectives of teenage Kim and Hannah, fans of the series will get an inside look into Kim’s early passion for reading, writing (and Jonathan) and find out why Hannah is so darn mean.

The book is a cross between The Carrie Diaries and Mean Girls with a little Girl Meets World thrown in. It’s a clean read with a tone that’s been compared to Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You. I cannot wait to share it with you!

9 Comments

  1. Tracy Krimmer on March 7, 2017 at 12:07 pm

    Congratulations! I’ll share this when it’s published. Can’t wait!

    • meredithgschorr on March 7, 2017 at 12:13 pm

      Thank you, Tracy! I’m so excited about this one 🙂

  2. chocolatepages on March 7, 2017 at 12:29 pm

    Ooh exciting to be self publishing and very exciting for more of Kim. Can’t wait to read it and hear more from Kim Hannah and Jonathan. Good luck.
    Amanda.

    • meredithgschorr on March 7, 2017 at 2:05 pm

      Thank you, Amanda! I’ll be in touch in the event you want to read an ARC 🙂

  3. Tracie Banister on March 7, 2017 at 12:59 pm

    Sounds like so much fun! Can’t wait to read it!

    And don’t fret about self-publishing. If a techno-doofus like me can manage it, I have no doubt you can! 😉

  4. macjam47 on March 9, 2017 at 8:04 am

    Congratulations! Though I don’t read YA, I’d be happy to do a books spotlight when you publish.

    • meredithgschorr on March 9, 2017 at 11:18 am

      Thank you so much! Although I’d ideally like to attract YA fans with this book, I’m betting most of the readers, at least initially, will be fans of the adult Blogger Girl series. But anything is possible 🙂

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