I’m excited to see what I’ll get to write while living with a group of other artists here:

For more information about the Millay Colony, visit their website.

I’m now running a blog series on the theme of Turning Points, where I’m asking authors (mostly YA authors, but not always!) to reveal the turning points in their writing careers that led them to where they are today. So far the blog series has featured Gayle Forman, Sean Ferrell, Eileen Cook, Christopher Barzak, Saundra Mitchell, Eric Luper, Gretchen McNeil, and Julia DeVillers—and there will be three new posts a week into March. Oh, and many of the posts include giveaways!

And in this interview on Through the Tollbooth, I talk about how my blog has evolved over the years—and about self-marketing by blogging. Check it out and comment if you have advice!

If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me reveal this last night. But I’ll tell you here, too.

The title of my next novel is:

17 & GONE

Look for it from Dutton in 2013. I blogged a bit more about it here.

Click this link to visit my blog and comment to tell me what you think of the cover of Fade Out, coming to the YA shelves in trade paperback on June 5, 2012, from Simon Pulse.

The paperback edition of Imaginary Girls will be available from Speak, an imprint of Penguin, in June 2012.

What do you think about the paperback cover of Imaginary Girls? Visit my blog and leave a comment to tell me.

Look for Fade Out in the YA section of your local bookstores and libraries in June 2012! The book will not only have a new title…  There will be some updates to the text… and there will be a brand-new cover! Just know that I have seen a draft of this cover and it is AMAZING. I can’t wait to show you.

Dolphin Bookshop, Port Washington, New York

The event was called "Falling Apart and Picking Up the Pieces: Why We Write" and featured seven authors giving 90-second reads of our novels in themed rounds. So much fun!

Here we are after THREE HOURS of reading (don't worry—there were rounds and we mingled in between). From left: Gae Polisner, Christopher Grant, Léna Roy, me, Michael Northrop, Arlaina Tibensky, and Matt Blackstone. Realization: I am short.

Thank you to the wonderful staff at Dolphin, to all the teens and everyone who showed up, and to the teachers who gave extra credit to their students for coming to our reading!

Inquiring Mind Bookstore, Saugerties, New York

This wonderful indie bookstore is in the town where I went to kindergarten! How cool to come back and read from a book I wrote.

Thank you to Ed Doyle for this photo!

I can’t believe I didn’t get a photo with the other author featured at this event, Susannah Appelbaum! Thank you to Susannah and to everyone at Inquiring Mind for inviting me to come for an event and hosting a great afternoon.

Huntington Public Library, Huntington, New York

This poster is missing the amazing Christopher Grant, our fifth author, since he was a late add.

Here we are after we finished our rounds of 90-second themed readings... with teens in charge of the bell to ding us out if we ran over! From left: Matt Blackstone, Christopher Grant, me, Gae Polisner, and Selene Castrovilla.

Thank you to the library for hosting us—and to the friends of the library for helping and to everyone who came to see us! Special thanks to the teens who ran the bell… and dinged me out (only once!).

Image from rookiemag.com

Here, check out what ROOKIE said about Imaginary Girls in its October roundup of spooky books. As a fan of Francesca Lia Block, I especially love this line:

“…A story of sisterhood and secrecy set in a nightmarish New England version of Weetzie Bat’s Los Angeles, full of delicious food, gorgeous imagery, and a very blurry line between reality and magic.”

Thank you so much for featuring Imaginary Girls, ROOKIE!

And if you aren’t following ROOKIE yet, you must. It’s beyond amazing.

I’ll be a resident artist at Djerassi this spring, working on a new novel. I absolutely can’t wait. For more information about Djerassi, visit their website.

To hear me on WAMC Northeast Public Radio, discussing Imaginary Girls in a Roundtable interview with Katie Britton—including inspirations and details of the story—visit WAMC’s page where you can play the interview anytime.

And to hear a group interview with me and other YA authors Holly Goldberg Sloan, Cindy Pon, and Suzanne Young, check out this Authors Are Rockstars podcast.