My first YA novel, 13 Days to Midnight, comes out in April. Little Brown said it would be okay to show the cover, so here it is! I’m SO happy with this cover. It perfectly conveys the story, the mood, the setting, and the main character, Jacob Fielding. If you’ve read some of my other books, be prepared for something completely different. The advanced reader copy has a letter from my Editor, which I have included here.

From the moment bestselling author Patrick Carman unveiled his idea for a teen novel that explored the dark side of having a superpower, I was hooked. And as Pat dug deeper into the writing, he seized on a theme that’s especially compelling in this era of humanity obsessed with trumping forces of nature: If you save a life…does it upset the balance of the universe? For you can’t escape death. Death will get you – or someone else – in the end.

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This is an interview on ABC where I got to bring Jeffrey Townsend with me. The first half is all about 39 Clues (just me), then Jeffrey gets on with me in the second half and we talk about the making of Ghost in the Machine. For a more in depth duel interview with the two of us, check out the radio interview we did here (fourth link down in the trailers and news stories section on the right): www.patrickcarman.com/mediakit/skeletoncreek