Karen McCoy

Fifteen-year-old Marnie Sayebrooke doesn’t know she’s one of the last Momenta—notorious for manipulating worlds and corrupting the universe. But just when she’s had enough of her dead-end life in Spring Oak, California, an old book transports her to the magical realm of Anderli, where a mysterious blight has stricken the land. The trees are dying, the rivers are flooding, and the fungus that ravaged the farmlands is showing signs of re-emerging—and it’s up to Marnie to use her extrasensory powers and Triskeleon bracelet to reverse the damage.

Marnie isn’t certain she can turn the tides set by previous Momenta, let alone stop blushing around Quinn, a warlock-in-training who shows her defensive tactics. But as she grows into her abilities and starts to consider Anderli her true home, Marnie realizes the disarray is caused by a force far more sinister than any Momenta could fathom—and she’ll have to save the land before other worlds on the magical timeline start to crumble.

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About Me

At an HR training for my day job in 2008, the content was so soul-sucking and dry that I got out a pen and started writing the novel that had been in my head for ten years. I've tentatively titled it Triskeleon, and you can read the summary here. Five years later, it's finally ready, and I hope to someday find it an audience.

I am passionate about YA literature, which is why I wrote an article for School Library Journal entitled "What Teens are Really Reading." Last June, I was featured on the website Dear Teen Me, and I was asked to contribute a chapter to the forthcoming Now Write! Speculative Fiction.

I write a blog, and, after much skepticism and deliberation, created a Twitter feed. I can also be reached by email. And, if you're interested in my librarian stuff, it can be found here.

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