• Cecily von Ziegesar has published more than thirteen Gossip Girl books and more than six million copies have been sold.
• Young adult authors Ann Brashares and Stephanie Meyers have successfully crossed over to the adult audience, and von Ziegesar is poised to do the same with Cum Laude. Its college setting makes the perfect bridge between the teenage years and adulthood.
• Gossip Girl is a hit television show on the CW network, and its characters will be going to college in the third season, making Cum Laude ideally timed to reach the show’s audience.

With Gossip Girl, Cecily von Ziegesar created a publishing and television sensation intended for young people, but embraced with equal fervor by adults. Her novels, praised for their humor, insight, and warmth—have sold more than six million copies.  Now von Ziegesar embraces her sizable eligible-to-vote audience with an adult novel that grabs the reader from word one.

Dexter College is a small liberal arts college in the quiet town of Home, Maine. But it won’t stay quiet for long with this new group of freshmen. There’s Shipley—blond, and beautiful, the object of envy and more than a little lust. Her edgy roommate, Eliza, has an attitude and a mouth to match. There’s Tom, the artist/jock, and Nick, his pot-smoking roommate. Adam, the introvert, lives at home with his parents and not-so-little sister. And finally there’s the requisite older guy who never quite left school...

Cum Laude is a witty, intimate, and unconventional take on the coming-of-age story. College is about more than just cramming and keg parties. It’s about doing things you’d never imagine yourself doing because you’re madly in love, stuck in the middle of nowhere, and may have just taken a mind-altering substance.