Young Adult Novel - Zamoria - Written at Last

New Young Adult Novel!

I recently completed my first Young Adult Novel--Zamoria. This novel has a fantasy element as well as a traditional school-kid element. But my main character is anything but ordinary. Currently the book is unpublished but I'll be working on bringing it to you as soon as possible. In the meantime, here's a description of what you can look forward to in the book:

Is her mother really a cat? That’s one theory on the disappearance of Queen Zamoria, though how she became that way is anyone’s guess. Zamoria (the princess, not the queen or the country) doesn’t know if her mother lives or not, but one thing is certain—her stepmother, the usurper Costanzia, must go.

 That’s what snarky 12-year-old Zoë Jansen, the writer of this fantastic tale, would also like in her own life—for bossy Connie, her dad’s new wife, to be gone. It will take a fight on the basketball court, a painting of a flying horse, and an injury in a stable before she uncovers the answers she’s looking for about her own mother and stepmother. Although she’s most definitely NOT a cat, her mother’s whereabouts are unknown. Why hasn’t she visited Zoë these past three years? While the truth isn’t nearly as strange as being transformed into a feline, it’s almost as unexpected.

 Zoë wields her colored pencils in an endless quest to explore life’s mysteries through her fantasy creations. She uses every spare minute of her time and skills to craft a world as imaginative as she is through her stories. It is her alter-ego, Princess Zamoria, who discovers the strange connection between herself, a silver-feathered flying horse, and two stars circling one another in the early morning sky. And it is Zamoria who learns mystical truths in the tales about the Bundlebird people and goat-herding dwarfs told by a wise old peddler. And it will be Zamoria who unlocks a secret gate into her past that will determine the future for herself and her people.

 But Zoë can’t escape reality forever. Like her character Zamoria, she begins an unforeseen adventure that will place her squarely in charge of her own amazing destiny.