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A Real Job
New girl here! I thought I’d start off by sharing my writing journey, but instead of talking about queries, junked manuscripts, or positive rejections, I’m going to talk about my battle for career...
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The Sex Talk
In less than two months my YA novel will be coming out (!) and recently, I’ve found myself giving the two-second pitch on repeat: “It’s about a teen prostitute in space.” This description invariably...
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THE COLOR OF RAIN’s Origins: Launch Announcement!
Released this week from Running Press Teens! As a brand new author, I’ve been encountering tough questions, and I wanted to take this launch announcement to discuss what I consider to be the hardest...
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BookExpo America Rundown
In the writing world, you will encounter many acronyms. You might even start to feel like you’ve joined the military. Or you might have fun flashbacks to Robin Williams in Good Moring, Vietnam. If...
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Writing, A Love Story
I have been wooing the same love interest for seventeen years. A fickle flirt, this affair has waged from crush to outright war, and seeing as how I got a mighty fine kiss this morning, I’d like to...
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Thanks, Papa Hemingway: A Collection of Thoughts on Writers & Alcohol
Warning: This post may make you crave a beer. “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”― Ernest Hemingway I was recently inspired by Carrie Jones’s...
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In Defense of the Present Tense
I see him coming. A knife-slit narrow to his eyes, he’s charging up to my book signing line with The Angry Father Mission. He’s the one in the audience who glared through my reading and asked...
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