Best Friends Forever!

Did you and your best friends ever share a notebook in school? You know, one of those notebooks that you passed back and forth and wrote each other notes? Well, with the help of author Kasie West (http://kasiewest.blogspot.com/), it looks like I've just stumbled onto my next series after The Austen Series. It's for young YA older MG and it's super cute! Here's a little blip that I'm using in the query:

BFF Notebook is a diary of sorts written by two thirteen year old girls as they pass a notebook back and forth and write notes to each other. They don’t want to get caught texting so they come up with this idea to fool their teachers into thinking that they are really doing class work. What they never expect is to solve a mystery at the same time.

Yep. A love mystery. Both Abigail and Riley are getting secret admirer notes! Who are they from? The two really hot guys they have crushes on? Or the two guys they despise most in the world? Or is it all a mean prank set up by Ashley Silverman to ruin their eighth grade year?

As their fast paced, daily story unfolds through these letters the girls learn the true meaning of friendship, loyalty, love and just how important school really is.

Kasie and I discussed this idea--just laughing and thinking about it, more as a fun joke than anything. Before we knew it (10 days later) we had a complete 40K MS staring at us. We FINISHED YESTERDAY!!!!

YES! It's true, Kasie and I wrote entries back and forth, as if we were really the Abby and Riley and created a whole book in a week and a half! I'm amazed at how--not only fast of a writer she is--but also how easy it was for this book to gel together. And now that we're finished we've already got 15 (Kasie, i've come up with 6 more!) new ideas for sequels.

So here's a very ROUGH DRAFT first entry of the concept. Let me know what you think!

So, OMGosh Abby!!!! I just came up with the most best idea ever! I mean like, way better than any other brilliant genius plan I’ve ever had before. Like, remember last summer when I totally had that idea to TP Ashley Silverman’s tent during camp? And then we found those old boy shoes and made prints all around outside—so then everyone blamed it on the boys camp? Hehehe! And Ashley went around thinking she was all way hotter than she was? Remember that? OK, so this is like 10x better than that! Eeeeh!
So are ya ready?
Are ya?
Here it is! You’re sooo gonna love me 4Ever! (I mean, I know you already do, but… OK! OK! I’ll get on with it!)
I think we should totally do this. That’s it. THIS! Check it out. I’ve had this extra notebook roaming around in my bag—because we were supposed to need one for math, but now Ms. Gibbons said we don’t. Anyway, my mom was telling me about how she used to do this with her best friend when she was our age. So I was like, we so have to do this.
So here’s the deal. I have the notebook, I write in it. Then I send it to you. Once you’ve written in it--you send it back. And we totally tell each other all about… well, whatever! It’ll be like writing notes—or texting each other. Except then we won’t get caught! LOL! Our teachers will so think we’re writing in our notebooks! Eeeh! How awesome is that, right? I know, I know, you can thank me later! LOL!
Well, what do you think? You wanna? I’m so gonna pass this off to you when I see you next hour. I can’t wait for you to open it and see this! Hahah! I’m gonna be watching you. Muhaha! OK, gotta go—the bell is so ready to ring!
Later-
Riley