dash and lily's book of dares

i know a girl and she gets to read lots of awesome books before they are released and she also gets hugged by certain authors i would like to be hugged by. yesterday she showed me what she's currently reading. i am enormously jealous.

this is how the blurb goes:

'Imagine this: you're in your favourite bookstore, scanning the shelves. You reach the section where your favourite author's books reside. And there, nestled between the incredibly familiar spines, sits a red notebook. So what do you do? The choice, I think, is obvious: you take down the notebook and open it. And you do whatever it tells you to do.'
It's Christmas-time in New York, and world-weary Dash has managed to persuade each of his parents that he is staying with the other, thus sending them both off with their new 'paramours' and leaving him happily shuffling back and forth between their empty apartments. Meanwhile, Christmas-loving Lily is bereft at the thought of spending Christmas without her full complement of family, and has been consoling herself with cookie-baking and carols-singing. When Lily's brother plants a red moleskin notebook in Dash's favourite store, leaving instructions that lead him not only around the bookstore but eventually out into the Christmas-sozzled city, the scene is set for a back-and-forth series of clues, coincidences and missed rendezvous.
Will sarcastic, intriguing Dash finally meet up with nerdy but loveable Lily? Only time will tell as the two teenagers try to outwit each other for as long as possible in this charming twist on the classic game of cat and mouse.

you know it! you do! and we are excited, no? even though we were a bit disappointed with naomi and ely? we sure are! there isn't even cover art for me to show you yet (although the book she had in her hot little hands did have a two-tone picture on its purple and black cardboard mockup cover).

let's all keep our eyes on this page at allen & unwin.