Big news time!

I promised big news a few weeks (or maybe months) ago. Well, it’s here.

And hopefully worth the wait.

The cover of LEARNING TO PLAY GIN is here! Is it not beautiful?

So that’s cool news A. Do you see cool news B? Do you?

Yep. Those are cover blurbs from Johanna Edwards and NY Times Bestseller Carly Phillips!

I know Johanna, so while her quote was very cool to get, Carly’s came completely out of the blue.

One day I was checking email (and you know how rare that is) and I saw that I had a message… from Carly Phillips.

Cool. But I didn’t rush to read it because my first instinct—I mean my very first—was that I had probably signed up for Carly’s newsletter, so I didn't freak out...

And then I opened the message…

And it wasn’t a newsletter…

It was a fan letter…

For ME!

She’d read Cheating at Solitaire and loved it! That’s right, a NY Times Bestseller loved my book.

I rushed to tell my editor and agent, and immediately Kate the magnificent said that if we hurried we could probably get Carly's quote on the cover. Isn't it great?

And she’s not even related to me!

So that was the first cool thing that happened to Learning to Play Gin. I hope it bodes well for the future.

-Ally

PS....Mark your calendars: I'll be signing books with the uber-cool Jennifer Barnes, author of Golden, on August 12th at the Barnes and Noble on 41st Street in Tulsa, OK! Hope to see you there!