Footballs & Cows: What a strange combination?

During the recent Florida Library Association Conference in April of 2007 I had an opportunity to meet and talk with YA author Catherine Gilbert Murdock about her book Dairy Queen which is also available on Audio CD. There is a picture of me with the author who told me that her third book is going to be a fantasy novel. Her first novel Dairy Queen tells the story of 15 year old D.J. Schwenk who is a talented and hard working athlete who is stuck working all the time on her family’s farm. When she is not milking cows, cleaning the barn and gathering hay she is training Brain a quarterback from a rival high school football team. D. J. joins her high school’s football team after realizing that she wants to be a player instead of a trainer. Murdock is coming out with a sequel to the novel called The Off Season that answers the question: Will D. J. and Brain’s love survive?