So, you all know that old yarn about writing being a lonely endeavour? What with the hours under dim lights in the stone cold silence and everything? Well. One way to assuage the loneliness a bit, every so often, is to collaborate. I’ve been lucky enough to do that with my very brilliant pal Audrey Vernick on two picture books and honestly, we almost felt guilty calling the whole thing work because it was so much fun.

And then Audrey, who is an over-achiever, went off and did the same thing with another friend (the amazing Olugbemisola Amusashonubi-Perkovich) with a novel — which, it might be obvious to most, is a lot longer than a picture book! They each took a character and alternated chapters and — voila — Two Naomis!

You all, I’m hear to tell you, they did it right. It’s a sweet, tender story about blending a family — told from the points-of-view of two ten-year-old girls named…. yes, you guessed it… Naomi! Both of them! Whether they like it or not! It will be out later this summer so yay! Lucky world!

Two friends wrote one book
about turning two families
into one sweet thing