nova ren suma

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About DANI NOIR:

Life is nothing like a noir movie. Or so you think.

Fade in on thirteen-year-old Dani Callanzano. It’s the summer before eighth grade, and Dani’s stuck in her nowhere mountain town with only her favorite noir mysteries at the Little Art Movie Theatre to keep her company. But when a big secret invades the scene in real life, Dani decides to bring the truth to light. Armed with a vivid imagination, a flair for the dramatic, and her knowledge of all things Rita Hayworth, Dani sets out to solve the mystery, and learns more about herself than she ever thought she could. All she knows is someone’s been lying and thinks they can get away with it. And it all has something to do with a girl in polka-dot tights…

Look for DANI NOIR (ages 9-14) at your local independent bookseller, pre-order it on Amazon, or add it to your shelf on Goodreads.

About Nova Ren Suma:

I'm a fiction writer who escaped the mountains of upstate New York to live in New York City. I first started writing seriously at seventeen, when my mom shipped me off to a summer workshop at Simon's Rock College. Since then I graduated Antioch College with a degree in writing and photography and received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. I've been awarded fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony, and my short stories for adults have been published in various lit journals. DANI NOIR, my debut tween novel, was inspired by small towns, big lies, and the dazzling femmes fatales in noir movies. It is due out in hardcover from Simon & Schuster / Aladdin in September 2009.

I live with the love of my life, the boy I fell for at age 18, and we've been together ever since. Right now, I'm working full-time, writing a new YA novel, and seeking just a few more hours of sleep... wish me luck!

You can visit my website at novaren.com. Or check out my writing blog at novaren.wordpress.com.