Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti5/19/2023 The book's second half follows an intergenerational road trip as Ruby is distracted by family and friends, including the Casserole Queens, members of a seniors book club. But Caletti's writing and imagery lift it out of pop fiction. Finalists take home $1,000.Ī brief description of "Honey's" initial plot - a teen girl falls for a rich, dangerous boy - veers into paperback romance territory. The winner will be announced Wednesday in New York, with the top writer receiving $10,000. It's more than I ever expected in my lifetime." "It's been beautiful, wonderful insanity. "I just about passed out," laughs Caletti, 41, who graduated from Lake Washington High School. Now she's not only published (her first book, "The Queen of Everything," came out in 2002), but her second novel, "Honey, Baby, Sweetheart," published by Simon & Schuster this spring, was recently nominated for a National Book Award for young people's literature. She had to be a writer "because I knew it was who I was." Two notes posted above her desk kept Issaquah author Deb Caletti writing through parenthood, divorce and seven years of rejection.
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