Maggie Stiefvater tries on the one-book format

I've been keeping an eye out for news from BookExpo America, and Publishers Weekly did a nice summary post on the big announcements in YA and children's publishing. There are several titles I'm anticipating, but I think I'm most interested in Maggie Stiefvater's standalone novel The Scorpio Races (although I'm really hoping she ends up with a better cover). It's due out in October. I liked Ms. Stiefvater's first book, Shiver, much better before she turned it into a series, so I'm excited to see what she'll do with a concrete ending date.