Cake Time celebrates 1 year — April 2018 giveaway

*** Winner selected! Congratulations to Sarah in Montebello, Calif.! ***

Has it already been a year? Around this time last year I celebrated the release of my first book, Cake Time — and haven’t stopped celebrating since.

And the celebration continues — with a Cake Time giveaway!

First, a bit about the novel-in-stories. When people ask what it’s about, this is what I usually say: It’s about a smart girl who makes risky choices about men and sex in Los Angeles. But here’s a slightly longer description:

Daring yet aimless, smart but slightly strange, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes.

In “How Not to Have an Abortion,” the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In “Easy Target,” the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later, in “Glow,” she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover’s secret daughter.

Ultimately, Cake Time grapples with urgent, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self.

One copy of  Cake Time will be given away to one of my blog readers. All current email subscribers will be automatically entered to win the copy. Subscribe now if you’re not yet getting my occasional newsletters.

For a second chance to win, comment on this post below, naming your favorite kind of cake. The giveaway closes April 30, 2018 at 11:59 pm PST. US addresses only.