Back in 2013 I read a story about a teenage girl in California who was declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy went wrong. There was a lot of talk at the time about the legal and moral implications. I’m not a lawyer, so I can’t weigh in on this, but I am a mother,…
Author: Christina McDonald
Christina McDonald is the USA Today bestselling author of the Jess Lambert series, Do No Harm, Behind Every Lie and The Night Olivia Fell (Simon & Schuster/Gallery Books), which has been optioned for television by a major Hollywood studio. She’s currently working on her next book.
My journey to publication
Next year my first book will be published. Cue excited clapping, champagne glass-clinking and general happiness. But first let me take a step back and tell you how this journey went, because it wasn’t, by any means, a short one. It was fraught with failure, rejection and, to be perfectly honest, a lot of me…
Book deal announcement
I am absolutely thrilled to announce I’ve signed a two-book deal with Gallery Books, a Simon and Schuster imprint. This is my dream come true; literally something I’ve been dreaming about since I was a child and wrote stories to entertain my sisters. Gallery have published some of my favorite books, including Still Alice by…