Meet Sarah Tregay, author of Love and Leftovers (Katherine Tegan Books, January 1). You can check out her website and her Facebook page.

Pitch your book in 140 characters:

Stuck on summer vacation, Marcie falls for J.D., the cute guy who brings her breakfast. Unfortunately, she also has a boyfriend back home.

Who will this book appeal to:

Teen girls with a soft spot for love stories, reluctant readers, and verse novel aficionados looking for something on the sweeter side.

Favorite moment or character in your book:

When my characters skip school and hide out among the cookbooks in the library.

What’s your writing routine:

Lunch breaks, traffic jams, and Sunday mornings at the coffee shop.

What’s your best piece of writing advice:

If your writing isn’t catching agent and/or editor attention, try something else… maybe a different genre, a different format, or a different point-of-view(s).

What’s been the most surprising part of the publishing journey:

The editing process… just when I thought I was done there was another little something. I’ve made hundreds of edits since my ARCs were printed.

What did you do when you learned your book would be published:

I told my co-workers who didn’t even know I wrote novels in my spare time.

What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve received:

Torture your characters. (This is always harder than it sounds.)

What are your top three favorite books:

Today? What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones, After the Kiss by Terra Elan McVoy, Heaven Looks a Lot Like a Mall by Wendy Mass.

What’s next for you:

Hopefully another novel in verse.