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My Soon-To-Be-Sex Life (writing as Judith Tewes)

Charlie is down to her absolute. Total. Last. Resort.

Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginization campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some.


Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty. How is she supposed to get a date when she has to go pick up his Depends?


Enter Eric, a hot rehab grad on the road to redemption, and the only one who can make Charlie rethink her strategy. The more she gets to know him, the more convinced she becomes that is the one, and not just another to add to the list of people who will abandon her.


In this hilarious and heartbreaking story of one girl’s detoured road to womanhood, Charlie’s list develops a life of its own – right when she realizes there’s so much more to lose.



Reader Sensitivity Note: This one is written under my edgier pen name, Judith Tewes, and I'd classify it as a New Adult or mature Young Adult / Adult fiction crossover. It's not for an elementary/junior high audience. It has strong language, is highly irreverent, and is frank about teen sexuality.


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My Soon-To-Be Sex Life

Written as Judith Tewes

Bloomsbury Spark, 2014 | ISBN 978-1619635388

Praise

"Sharply witty with loveably crass characters, My Soon-To-Be Sex Life is a heartfelt and unconventional look at first love, first times, and new approaches in learning to trust. Judith Tewes is soon-to-be on my list of favorite new contemporary YA authors." 

~ Denise Jaden, author of Losing Faith and Never Enough.


"Quirky, with loveable characters and surprising heart, My Soon-To-Be Sex Life is an addictive book with laugh aloud funny moments. I gobbled it up in quick bites, enjoying Judith Tewes' down to earth prose that never feels gratuitous. Refreshing and new, a great new voice in contemporary YA fiction!" 

~ Janet Gurtler, author of I'm Not Her and If I Tell.

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