Cave Spring senior puts a face to a novel’s character
After teenager Colleen Truskey snapped a photo of her friend Sarah Beth Penny, neither was prepared for Random House to ask to use it on a book cover.
by MIKE ALLEN | 981-3236
Thousands of young artists hope to break into the New York publishing scene.
Cave Spring High School senior Colleen Truskey did it by posting a portrait of a friend online.
Colleen’s photograph of longtime friend and fellow Cave Spring senior Sarah Beth Penny graces the dust jacket of “Flutter,” a young adult science fiction novel by Chicago author Gina Linko . It was released Oct. 23 by Random House Books for Young Readers.




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