Teenage love, loss and--oh, yeah--Werewolves. Monsters are everywhere and what if the most frightening isn't a werewolf at all? Jessica's life seemed tragic enough since the loss of her mother, but meeting Pietr turns her world upside down again. The newest member of Junction High, Pietr has secrets to hide--secrets including dramatic changes he is undergoing that will surely end his life early.
Saoirse Redgrave’s cell phone novel 13 to Life: A Werewolf’s Tale was picked up by St. Martin’s Press in a 3 book deal after taking first place in the 2008 Textnovel contest. 13 to Life: A Werewolf’s Tale was written as a cell phone novel in 5 short weeks. Says Redgrave, “You know that cell phone novels are amazingly brief--closer to screen plays in some ways, I think. I had been doggedly (hey, it's a werewolf story ;-) working on fleshing out 13 to Life. It was little more than a story skeleton that won, in retrospect.”
Though Redgrave says the heart of the novel remains the same, she had to take it from a 50 page text novel to 350 pages to get it ready for St. Martin’s. The first book is scheduled for release in 2010 under the name Shannon Reinbold-Gee. 
She spoke candidly about her experience with writing a cell phone novel. “I don't carry a cell phone frequently--I'm often on my little farmstead where the signal's poor. I don't fit the standard for cell phone authors in Japan. I'll be 37 in October, happily married and living far from anything anyone would consider a city. And my books are not thinly disguised autobiographies because although I used my narrator Jess as a bit of a way to deal with my mother's early death, I've never met a werewolf...that I know of.”
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Clover, cool stuff! and thanks for those links. Quite handy.
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