The #1 Spring 2015 Kids’ Indie Next Pick!
Amazing news. Seriously amazing. The Walls Around Us is the #1 Kids’ Indie Next Pick for Spring 2015! Yes, I actually typed #1 (still can’t believe it! so thrilled!)…
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A Kirkus Star for THE WALLS AROUND US!
The Walls Around Us got its first trade review—it’s always so nerve-wracking waiting for these—and I’m beyond thrilled to say it was a wonderful starred (!) review from Kirkus…
Special Free Preview of THE WALLS AROUND US
I’m excited (and kind of nervous!) to tell you that you can, right now this very minute, read the first seven chapters of The Walls Around Us before the book comes out this March…
Two Beautiful Blurbs for THE WALLS AROUND US
Sometimes a writer you admire says something incredible about something you’ve written. I am thrilled and honored by these words from two glorious authors I admire, Libba Bray and Michelle Hodkin, about my new novel The Walls Around Us…
Happy 2015!
Happy New Year! It’s officially 2015, and now I can say The Walls Around Us comes out this year… on March 24 to be exact. Check out this wonderful image my publisher made with Walls ARCs…
The First Annual North Texas Teen Book Festival
I’ll be visiting Texas this year! I will be one of the authors featured at the first-ever North Texas Teen Book Festival on March 7 at the Irving Convention Center.
Books with Bite Highlights Foundation Workshop with Me & Micol Ostow
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be teaching a new writing workshop in 2015—this time in the fall and co-led with a certain brilliant author I admire like crazy, Micol Ostow, author of the terrifically terrifying AMITY!
First Foreign Sale for THE WALLS AROUND US
I’m excited to share that The Walls Around Us, my book forthcoming in March 2015, just had its very first foreign sale… Dutch rights have been sold to Karakter Uitgevers!
Beautiful Djerassi Workshop-Retreat Ads Coming
The workshop season at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program will be launching in 2015—with workshop-retreats not just with me but with other Djerassi alums!—and there are some beautiful full-color ads coming out in writing magazines. I wanted to share…
Pre-Order Campaign with McNally Jackson Books
I’m excited to announce that there is a very special way to pre-order a hardcover of my upcoming March 2015 novel The Walls Around Us… and if you do, you can get it signed and personalized!
Praise from Booksellers for THE WALLS AROUND US
My publisher, Algonquin Young Readers, is about to send some beautiful ARC packages containing my upcoming March 2015 novel The Walls Around Us out into the world, and they keep thrilling me with all the cool components they’re including in the package…
17 & GONE in Chinese
Last week, my first-ever book translated into another language landed on my doorstep… it’s my novel 17 & Gone, translated into simplified Chinese! I can’t read a single character and am not sure what any of it says, but it was a thrill to hold this in my hands…