"Sensitive Zack is a likable protagonist...
teens will enjoy the drama and the romance."
SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL

WAITING TO SCORE
by J. E. MacLeod
Publisher: Westside Books
ISBN: 978-1-934813-01-0
Release date: Spring 2009

Sometimes timing is everything!

Zack Chase, new in town, gets a crash course in the dangerous, fast-paced lives of local teens. WAITING TO SCORE gives readers a realistic look at high school issues. This is a book teens will enjoy and adults can use to open up discussion about subjects that are sometimes difficult to talk about.

Read an excerpt here.

Highly Recommended! Crisp and smoothly flowing prose, snappy dialogue with graphic modern language, appealing characters, plenty of action, and current, relevant subjects combine in a young adult novel that captures the reader?s interest from the opening paragraph and holds it to the conclusion. - Darleen Golke, CM Magazine- June 2009

ABOUT J.E.

You know how some people are really quick witted and clever things seem to just float right off their tongues, like they've got a tiny speechwriter living inside their brains or something?

Well, I'm totally not like that. I'm a little slow on the comeback, sometimes. It's one of the reasons I love to write. I can always go back and add things later.

For me, being a teen was hard work. My teen years overflowed with angst. Good material for books I guess. Character building as it were. I think I love YA books for that reason. I want teens to emerge from the turmoil victorious.

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