Thanks for Loving Lucas, Cammie McGovern!

Thrilled to see this: in an interview on Once Upon a Twilight, Cammie McGovern, author of Say What You Will, and the newly released A Step Toward Falling listed Lucas (yes, that's my Lucas) as one of her Five Favorite Heartthrobs, writing:

Lucas from I REMEMBER YOU by Cathleen Davitt Bell—Amazingly compelling love story about time travel that gets all the desperate, heady urgency of first love just right.

Woo hoo! Thank you, Cammie.

Cammie's books sound wonderful and A Step Toward Falling releases Tuesday. I'm going to check it out. Here's a bit on who Cammie is from her website:

As the parent of a 19-year-old son with autism and one of the founders of a center which serves over 600 children and young adults with disabilities, I have gotten to know a lot of young people with a wide variety of disabilities and have felt a little dismayed at how rarely we see their stories in books, movies, and TV shows. This is the largest minority group in the country and also—seemingly—the least represented in popular culture. My hope in telling a few of their stories is that readers might see how much they have in common with other young adults who might look and act quite differently because of a disability. The cornerstones of our personalities are essentially the same: we all desire friendships, love, family, connection, a feeling of success.

I have also written three novels that are technically for adults but, after hearing from quite a few kids reading Eye Contact for school, that maybe those old labels don’t always fit. Eye Contact is about a boy with autism who witnesses a murder that takes place during school hours. I’m thrilled that it’s being used by teachers and librarians in discussions about bullying and tolerance of kids with special needs. My other novel that might be of interest to YA fans is The Art of Seeing about two sisters and how their relationship grows and changes when the older one becomes a movie actress, based (a tiny bit) on life with my own dear sister, Elizabeth McGovern (currently starring in Downton Abbey.) For more info on these books, check out the My Books link.

Last but not least, if you would like more information about Whole Children/Milestones, now moving into its 12th year of serving children and young adults with disabilities, please check out their website: Whole Children