Cheryl Klein, I learned first hand when she spent hours brilliantly* editing my manuscript, is not only an amazing editor (Hey there, Harry Potter) but a huge-hearted person as well. She and Arthur Levine have made a courageous young writer's dream come true. If you are in the Western Washington area, please consider attending a truly beautiful book signing: * I typically hate the horribly over-used B-word, but nothing else really fit as well there. They were incredible edits, no joke. She's insanely smart.

From Cheryl Klein's blog (http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/):

"Over a year ago, Arthur and I were contacted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation regarding a young Seattle-area writer named Stephanie Trimberger (who was 13 at the time; she’s 15 now). Stephanie has brain cancer, and her dream was to have her novel edited by “the Harry Potter editors.” Arthur and I read it and wrote her an editorial letter, and she began working on revisions. A year went by, and we didn’t hear anything more. Then last week, we heard that she had finished her book and wanted us to take one last look.

Thanks to the terrific coordination of a lot of people at Scholastic, we not only managed to edit it quickly, but our designers typeset the manuscript and created a gorgeous cover for it. And with the help of an extraordinarily generous donation from the printer, Command Web, three hundred copies of Stephanie’s THE RUBY HEART have now been printed.

Your Mission, Seattle Area People!: Next Tuesday, September 25, at 6 p.m., Stephanie will be doing a reading and signing of her book at the Pacific Place Barnes & Noble. Will you please, please attend? It would be so very awesome to have a big audience there to applaud her accomplishment and make it a great day for her. Stephanie is a huge reader of YA and fantasy fiction; she lost her mom to brain cancer nine years ago, and it sounds like she’s been writing about that long. I’m sure ALL writers can sympathize with her dream of publishing a book, and it should be an amazing evening in seeing that dream fulfilled.

The details in full:

Tuesday, September 25

6 p.m. (it was scheduled for 5:30 earlier; the time has been moved back)

Barnes & Noble Pacific Place 600 Pine Street, Suite 107 Seattle, WA 98101 (206) 265-0156

You can RSVP or leave a message for Stephanie at the Facebook page for the event. Thank you!