In late July I was lucky enough to be chosen to attend the NASA-funded Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. In a single week, I had a crash course in college-level astronomy.
Yesterday, I was on Twitter (as, um, usual) and my attention was pointed to this very surreal piece of news: Malia and Sasha Obama were book-shopping at the Strand Bookstore in New York and bought a certain YA novel… yes, MINE. What??
I’m excited to say that my next YA novel, 17 & Gone, is forthcoming from Dutton, an imprint of Penguin, on March 21, 2013! I recently revealed the book cover and summary on my blog, but you can see it right here. THIS is the stunning, haunting cover:
Two of my books are about to be released in paperback this June: Imaginary Girls and Dani Noir. And they’re both going through transformations…
Imaginary Girls was featured in this Bookslut piece called “We Can’t Choose Our Families,” I loved what was said about the book so much, I just had to share.
I was awarded the Oakley Hall Founders Scholarship to attend the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop in fiction this year.
I have an exciting opportunity coming up this summer: I was selected to take part in the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for writers—a NASA-funded workshop for established writers to improve science literacy in published books.
I’m excited to tell you that I was just awarded a new fiction residency! I’ll be a resident at the Millay Colony in November 2012, where I’ll get to stay for four weeks and work on a new novel.
Some of you visiting this site may already know this, but to anyone who doesn’t: I keep a writing blog called distraction no. 99, and I’ve been expanding it with new and exciting features lately…
I just revealed the title of my next novel, forthcoming from Dutton Books in 2013…
Today is the day I’m excitedly revealing the cover of Fade Out—a book you may remember as Dani Noir—on my blog! Curious? Want to see how gorgeous it is?
If you know me even a little, you know how much I love—love, love, love, love, love—the cover of Imaginary Girls. Now I have a chance to love a new cover for the book… because the paperback cover is a whole new look. Wanna see?