DON'T EVER CHANGE

A whip-smart coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who aspires to be the next great American author and decides to spend her last summer before college living a life worth writing about.

After graduation, Eva Kramer’s classmates wrote things like “stay cool” and “don’t ever change” in her yearbook—but Eva’s planning to do the exact opposite. Before heading off to college, Eva is determined to spend the summer shaking things up a bit. See Eva wants to be an author, but she’s just now realized that she can’t write what she knows because, in reality, she hasn’t really begun to live yet.

But revisions are never as easy as they seem. Eva has to be prepared to try new things (like working as a camp counselor without any prior experience). She has to be okay with letting go (like when her new/first boyfriend leaves town to go on tour with his band). She can’t be afraid to let her story go in unexpected directions (like falling for someone else, someone she always thought of as a rival). And by the end of her summer, Eva will have to decide for herself how she’ll want the story to end.

M. Beth Bloom is a musician, video artist, and writer. Her fiction has appeared in StoryQuaterly and Dave Egger’s Best American Non-Required Reading series. She is also the author of Drain You. M. Beth lives in Los Angeles.