I’m thrilled to bring Chick Lit Reviews readers the latest news about an author I’ve come to love both in her writing and online! Sarah Jio, author of The Violets of March, one of my favorite reads this year has just shared that she’s signed another two novels!

From Publishers Marketplace:
Author of THE VIOLETS OF MARCH, and the forthcoming novel, THE BUNGALOW, Sarah Jio’s BLACKBERRY WINTER, about the fateful late-season Seattle snowstorm that hits the city in 1932 and on the same day in 2010, connecting the lives and losses of two women in unforeseeable ways; along with Jio’s fourth book, THE LAST CAMELLIA, to Denise Roy at Plume, in a good deal, by Elisabeth Weed at Weed Literary (NA).

Congratulations Sarah! I can’t wait to read them both as well as your upcoming novel, The Bungalow which I also heard has been bumped up and is now coming this December!

The Bungalow, due out December 2011:
A sweeping saga of thwarted love, murder, and a long-lost painting… In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiance, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world–until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, The bungalow chronicles Anne’s determination to discover the truth about the twin losses–of life and, and of love–that have haunted her for seventy years.

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