Happy launch day to my new idiom: GIRL UP! It means: be awesome, stay smart, be strong, follow your heart. Coincidentally, it happens to appear in the fourth Fifties Chix book, Broken Record (LAUNCHED TODAY!). In this book, Bev is in the spotlight, much like Maxine was in the spotlight in book 3. As you know, Bev hasn’t had a lot of friends who are girls in the past, other than teammates. She gets along really well with guys (reminds me of my best friend in elementary school, Amy Douglass. I, on the other hand, thought boys were from another planet. I get now that they’re just earthlings who are male.). I thought it would be fun to tell some of the Fifties Chix story from the guys’ points of view, so I did that a little in this book [hint: find out what Conrad really thinks of Bev!--click and scroll down to the preview]. Bev has to make some pretty tough choices, and of course, I’m proud of how she handles it and what she chooses. I hope when I grow up I can be a little more like Bev.

I thought you might appreciate a sneak peek of the book and so I’m including the passage where “girl up” appears so that you may begin using this term immediately:

Bob Jenkins wanted to screech and whine, throw a tantrum as if he were a two year old. But he knew that wouldn’t get them out of this game unscathed—though it would certainly get him out of the game. He just wasn’t feeling it and there was nothing worse in the world than standing on that mound and having nothing to bring. He was tapped. But it was too soon for relief; he didn’t want that either.
    Coach eyeballed them; did Bob need to come in?
    “Girl up, man. Pitch like your sister.” Marsalis hit Bob on the shoulder, flashed him a wicked smile and ran back to his warn little spot behind home plate.

Happy reading!

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