>> 5.17 Stephie has sold two more teen books, this time to HarperCollins to launch their new First Kisses line. THE BOYFRIEND TRICK will be released in January 2007, and PLAYING THE FIELD will be released in June 2007. Here is the Publisher’s Marketplace blurb announcing the sale:

Stephanie Rowe, writing as Stephie Davis's THE BOYFRIEND TRICK, a story of a girl's rediscovery of her passion for music as she takes the lead in a garage band, and PLAYING THE FIELD, where one girl finds out that she can have a perfect life on and off the field just as long as she's hanging with her hot soccer tutor, to Lexa Hillyer at First Kisses/Harper, for publication in 2007, in a nice deal, by Michelle Grajkowski at 3 Seas Literary Agency (world).

Stephie is a triple finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards with WHO NEEDS BOYS? and SMART BOYS & FAST GIRLS, and with her chick lit, IF THE SHOE FITS (written under Stephanie Rowe).

>> 3.29 Exciting news! SMART BOYS & FAST GIRLS and WHO NEEDS BOYS? are 2006 RITA Finalists!