How Novels (REALLY) Get Written - Behind the Scenes of Amelia Gray is Almost Okay

✨ GET A FREE DELUXE BEAT SHEET for this book when you preorder the book before March 28, 2023! Details at: Deluxe Beat Sheet Includes: - Full Save the Cat! Beat Sheet - Comprehensive breakdown of the entire revision process (from first draft to final draft!) - Wants and Needs Analysis - Genre breakdown - Save the Cat! logline - BONUS: “Cracking the Midpoint” brainstorm session audio recording with transcript and commentary 📚 ABOUT THE BOOK: When you can choose to be anyone, how do you know who you really are? From the author of Better You Than Me and I Speak Boy comes another fun and relatable book about new experiences and how staying true to yourself is the best way to be okay. Twelve-year-old Amelia Gray has changed schools thirty-nine times (!!!) because of her dad’s job, which doesn’t leave a lot of time for making friends. But that’s okay. Amelia loves her “life on the go” with Dad and their adorable supermutt, Biscotti. She’s been in enough middle schools to know that friendships are messy, and who needs that? But when her dad announces that he wants to stay in their new town for the whole summer—maybe even forever—Amelia realizes she’s going to have to do the one thing she’s never had to do: fit in. So she gives herself not one but three total makeovers, to try out a few personalities and hopefully find her “thing.” Is she Amie, a confident track star? Mellie, a serious journalist? Or Lia, a bold theater kid? Juggling three identities is hard, and Amelia soon finds herself caught in the kind of friendship drama she has always managed to avoid. Yet despite her best efforts, she still can’t answer the most important question of all: Who is the real Amelia Gray? Available now wherever books are sold! ⭐ A Junior Library League Gold Standard! ⭐ “Aptly literalizing the perennial theme of reinventing oneself, this light comedy of errors from Brody features laugh-aloud shenanigans and tender insights.” – Publisher’s Weekly ⭐ A feel-good story with a lovable protagonist, this well-paced middle-grade novel is engaging and enjoyable in equal measure.“ - Booklist ✉️ CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: ◦ Website: ◦ Twitter: ◦ Instagram: @ 💁🏻‍♀️ ABOUT ME: Jessica Brody is the author SAVE THE CAT! WRITES A NOVEL as well as more than 20 novels for teens, tweens, and adults, published by Simon & Schuster, Random House, Macmillan, and Disney Press. Her books have been translated and published in over 23 countries and several have been optioned for film and TV. She is the founder of the Writing Mastery Academy, an innovative online learning platform for fiction writers.