Media N Stuff

A nice shout out to BRUISED, courtesy of the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas:

A cool review of HIGH & DRY, courtesy of Rosianna Halse Rojas:

Launch Week Links

L.A. Times Festival of Books

• HIGH & DRY came out on Tuesday. Thanks to all my friends and family for their support, and of course to my agent and Abrams/Amulet Books!

• Slinging Slang: The Case for Made-up Words (Guest Post for Janice Hardy's Fiction University)

• Top Secret Easter Eggs from HIGH & DRY

• Shae Has Left the Room's review of HIGH & DRY

• Books, Bones & Buffy: "High School is Not For Wimps": HIGH & DRY by Sarah Skilton

• YA Author Kate Ormand's review of HIGH & DRY

• Pasadena Teen Book Festival: Spotlight on Sarah Skilton

• The paperback for BRUISED (with a fresh cover) also hit bookstores:

COVER REVEAL: HIGH AND DRY

My contemporary YA mystery, HIGH AND DRY, comes out April 15th, 2014 from Amulet Books! I love the gritty cover:

What's HIGH AND DRY about?

Framed for a stranger's near-fatal overdose at a party, blackmailed into finding a mysterious flash drive everyone in school seems anxious to suppress, and pressured by his shady best friend to throw an upcoming game, high school soccer player Charlie Dixon spends a frantic week trying to clear his name, win back the girl of his dreams, and escape a past that may be responsible for all his current problems.

• Enter my giveaway at Goodreads to win one of two ARCs (advance reader copies) this fall

• Pre-order HIGH AND DRY at Barnes & Noble.

HIGH AND DRY Sells to Amulet Books

My second novel, a Young Adult mystery called High and Dry, sold to Maggie Lehrman at Amulet Books!

Here is the fancy Publishers Marketplace listing, 'cause it ain't real till PM announces it:

Author of BRUISED Sarah Skilton's HIGH AND DRY, set in a California desert town in which a high school soccer player is framed for a stranger's near-fatal overdose, blackmailed into uncovering a missing flash drive, and pressured to throw the big game, all while trying to win back the girl of his dreams, again to Maggie Lehrman at Amulet, in a nice deal, for publication in 2014, by Sara Megibow of Nelson Literary Agency (World).

I've lived in L.A. since 1999, so it was only a matter of time before I tried my hand at a sun-soaked mystery.

Did you know?
Living in L.A. eventually turns you into a private detective.

Huge thanks to my agent Sara Megibow, my beta readers, the Writing Night peeps, and my friends and family for their support. I'm thrilled to be working with Maggie again.

It's been enormously fun researching mysteries, and I hope you enjoy reading High and Dry as much as I enjoyed writing it!