I’m so thrilled to be a contributor to Kelly Jensen’s YA anthology Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. There are 44 diverse voices in this anthology, which features a scrapbook-style treasure full of essays, interviews, and art that all speak in some way to feminism and what that means for teens today.
This spring, I’ll be at the annual regional New England SCBWI conference—held this year in Springfield, Massachusetts—where I’ll be giving a talk on taking risks and teaching first pages workshops. The theme of this year’s conference is “Expand & Diversify Your Portfolio.”
The Cybils Awards—the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards—were announced on Valentine’s Day… and The Walls Around Us won for YA Speculative Fiction!
The Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2016 Edgar Award, and The Walls Around Us was nominated for an award for Best Young Adult!
YALSA, the Young Adult Library Services Association of the ALA, announced its list of 2016 Best Fiction for Young Adults, and The Walls Around Us was one of the titles!
One of my favorite book-related sites on the whole of the internet is Book Riot, so I was extra delighted to find The Walls Around Us on their Best of 2015 list!
I truly can’t believe this! The Walls Around Us was just named a Great Read of 2015 by NPR! NPR’s Book Concierge features books that NPR staff and critics loved this year, and my book is among them!
Whenever a library praises one of my books, I flail, because libraries made me a life-long reader and turned me into the writer I am today. Thank you to the Chicago Public Library for choosing The Walls Around Us as a Best Book of 2015!
How thrilling! The Walls Around Us was named one of the Best Books of 2015 by The Boston Globe!
I cannot even articulate how excited I am about this upcoming event… To celebrate the March 2016 paperback release of The Walls Around Us, I’m doing an event in New York City with one of my favorite authors, Courtney Summers!
Every year The Horn Book magazine announces its choices for the best books of the year in their Fanfare list… and this year The Walls Around Us is one of the Fiction selections!
Every year, the Texas Library Association announces reading lists for high schools in the State of Texas, and I am excited to say that The Walls Around Us landed on the Tayshas Reading List for 2016!
