Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she’s stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF’s gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her covert graphic design business at night (which includes trading emails with a cute cello-playing client). When Tatum discovers she’s not the only one in the house keeping secrets, she finds she has the chance to make amends with her family and friends. Equipped with a new perspective, and assisted by her feisty step-abuela-slash-fairy-
Praise for IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE
"You won't be able to put this book down. This heartfelt read totally sucked me in. A (Prince) Charming read." -- Miranda Kenneally, author of Catching Jordan
"You won't be able to put this book down. This heartfelt read totally sucked me in. A (Prince) Charming read." -- Miranda Kenneally, author of Catching Jordan
"Honest, fun,and entirely compelling, this is a story about how being in the wrong place at the wrong time can lead to a whole lot of right. Tatum is a character you'll relate to, cheer for, and want to befriend." -- Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of Firsts
"Tatum's complex and realistic relationships with her friends, family and the potential love interest will have you savoring every chapter while heavily anticipating the next. It Started With Goodbye is an adorable and clever contemporary that will enthrall you with its fairytale-esque charm." -- Ami Allen-Vath, author of Liars and Losers Like Us
"I loved this fun, contemporary take on the Cinderella tale that explores what it takes to be yourself while finding your place in life, love,and your family. June's characters are vividly drawn, complex people that you'll want to root for, and Tatum's story will strike a chord for anyone who's felt like they were misunderstood." -- Lisa Maxwell, author of Unhooked, Sweet Unrest and Gathering Deep
"A sweet and satisfying portrait of family, friendship, and discovering your own path. Tatum's journey from fear and disappointment to honesty and freedom to be herself is one that will resonate with many readers." -- Ashley Herring Blake, author of Suffer Love
"A fresh, charming debut, brimming with friendship, family, and love." -- Marci Lyn Curtis, author of The One Thing
Guest Post with Author Christina June:
What
fiction most influenced your childhood, and what effect did those stories have
on IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE
I read constantly
when I was younger. My parents were
forever taking me to the library and bookstore because I just couldn’t get
enough. I grew up on the Berenstain
Bears, Shel Silverstein and fairy tale and short story anthologies. I loved The Babysitters’ Club and the All of
a Kind Family. I loved Anne of Green
Gables and Emily of New Moon (I’m more of an Emily than an Anne). I devoured all things Beverly Cleary and Judy
Blume. Now that I’m a parent, these are
the books I find myself eager to share with my own daughter.
I see the
influences of this literature all the time in my own writing. They taught me to be careful with friendships
and family dynamics. Even in a story
where there is romance, the author should always honor the other important relationships
in a narrator’s world. They also showed
me how a good story teller can make you relate to the narrator and feel like
it’s not just you experiencing something.
Judy Blume’s ARE YOU THERE GOD? ITS ME, MARGARET was a thousand percent
that book for me. I always tell myself
that if only one reader can relate to a character I’ve created, then I’ve done
my job.
As a teen, I read a
ton of horror—Christopher Pike, VC Andrews and RL Stine. This is what all my friends were reading
too. I may or may not have been a member
of online fan clubs for these authors in the early days of the internet. I wouldn’t say these affected me much in
terms of writing, but they still affect me when I’m choosing books to read or
movies to watch. I still enjoy dark
humor, tension, danger and creep. I like
to escape into worlds and situations that aren’t necessarily fantasy but
probably won’t happen in my daily life, so horror/thriller/mystery often fits
the bill.
Christina June writes young adult contemporary fiction when she’s not writing college recommendation letters during her day job as a school counselor. She loves the little moments in life that help someone discover who they’re meant to become – whether it’s her students or her characters.
Christina is a voracious reader, loves to travel, eats too many cupcakes, and hopes to one day be bicoastal – the east coast of the US and the east coast of Scotland. She lives just outside Washington DC with her husband and daughter.
Her debut novel, IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE, will be published by Blink/HarperCollins on May 9, 2017.
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