I’ve often told teens that high school is a struggle for everyone. Not meaning, you know, high school sucks RUN AWAY NOW. More like…even the people who you think have it all together are freaking out on the inside. I found out after high school that one of the most popular girls in school struggled [...]
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When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a marine biologist. I mean, I also had a dog-eared copy of Emily Dickinson’s COMPLETE POEMS, and I’d like to think that that part of my Inner Nine-Year-Old is okay with my career choices. But the part that wanted to go in the ocean and [...]
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So my first kiss was this guy named Devin. Devin was fifteen and I was seventeen and, okay, I caught a little flack for dating a freshman but he was SO cute and he had these ice blue eyes and would talk to me in an English accent when he called me on the phone [...]
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So today I was talking to a new friend about growing up and high school and how these experiences have made me love writing for teens. I mean, seriously, what an amazing audience to have! And I may have been dealing with a lot as a teenager (aren’t we all?) and I was kind of [...]
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Recently I had a TON of fun guest-blogging for the fabulous Jessica Leader while she was on her honeymoon! There was such a wonderful lineup of blogger and authors, so it was a real honor to be included! Since I’m just twiddling my thumbs and waiting for some prizes to arrive in the mail before [...]
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I’M SO FREAKING SORRY, OKAY? I AM BLOGFAIL. First and foremost, I must apologize to CARRIE (pictured left, with me, at a Books of Wonder party), who is the one person who reads my blog like it’s a religion, and I may have caused her a crisis of faith. I AM SORRY. But, seeing as [...]
~ read more ~I don’t really like making new year’s resolutions. I think that those sorts of decisions and goals shouldn’t be reserved to a one-time, year-long commitment. Also, I don’t like setting myself up to fail. I like setting goals that I know I can reach. Call me gutless, but that’s how I do. Of course, I [...]
~ read more ~I have a naughty new obsession. As Madeleine over at The Buried Editor will confirm, banned books are bloody addictive. It’s not so much that I’m reading them right now, since I have a stack of ARCs that could kill a man if its center of gravity were disturbed. It’s that I’m reading about them. [...]
~ read more ~So I was at work today, as I tend to be on weekdays, milling about when a coworker asked me “do you really love New York?” Of course it took me a good second or two to figure out that a) said coworker was being cheeky and b) she asked me because I’m wearing a [...]
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I miss Amelia. I miss her so much. Amelia is the big sister I never had. She fills in all the gaps left by a dramatic teenhood and a funny relationship with my mother. She tells me what I need to hear, and sometimes what I want to hear, but would never sugar-coat something important. [...]
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