1–What is the title of your latest release? BECOMING CARLY KLEIN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? What if 15-year-old Carly Klein could become a different person? What if instead of being a rebellious and unhappy student failing out of her uptight, private girls’ school in Manhattan, she could pose as a Barnard College sophomore and become the girlfriend of her psychiatrist mother’s blind patient, Daniel, a sexy senior at Columbia? Because Daniel cannot see her, Carly finds an ingenious way of making this happen. Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, who wind up divorcing, Carly is sustained by her best friendship with unconventional and artistic Lauren, with whose warm and caring French mom, Tibou, she would like to swap mothers. When Lauren and her family move away, Carly ramps up her passionate pursuit of Daniel and takes us on a rollercoaster romp through the exhilaration as well as disappointment of first love and the unintended consequences of disguise, deception, and discovery. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Writing Becoming Carly Klein has been inspired in many ways by my life in New York City, where I grew up and spent much of…

