This past weekend I was excited to be on the “Fantastic Teen Reads for Spring” panel at Books of Wonder, where I got the chance to read from 17 & Gone and also sign a massive amount of books for the store.
17 & Gone came out on March 21, the week of the NYC Teen Author Festival, and it was a thrill to take part in some amazing events.
17 & Gone is off on blog tour—and the series of posts in the blog tour are all set to reveal some of the inspirations that went into writing the book. One of my biggest inspirations was photography, and I’m about to share some photos that infused and illuminated the story.
Since this is the 17 & Gone release week, I wanted to do something to mark the moment. To celebrate. So I’m launching a new series on my blog distraction99.com this week and I’ve invited some fellow YA authors to take part.
It’s the first day of March, so today is the first day I can officially say it: My new YA novel, 17 & GONE, comes out this month! (March 21 in the US, and March 26 in Canada!)
I have some exciting news about a writing residency this summer in the Georgia mountains! I was just awarded an NEA fellowship to attend the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences.
I’m excited to tell you that I’ll be at the NYC Teen Author Festival this year! And—in a cool coincidence of good timing—the 2013 festival is running March 18–24, which just so happens to be my launch week for 17 & GONE! Want to know which bookstore events I’ll be a part of?
If you’re a YA or middle-grade writer planning to go to the New England SCBWI conference in Springfield, Massachusetts, May 3–5, I wanted to tell you two things:
MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog revealed the “13 YA Novels We Can’t Wait to Read in 2013” and guess whose 2013 YA novel was on that list? (I couldn’t believe it, myself!)
It’s a thrilling, humbling, amazing moment when an author you admire speaks out and vouches for you with a beautiful blurb. Today I am so excited to share this blurb for 17 & Gone from Kiersten White!
…In Which I Wear My New Lucky Blue Shoes, Reveal My Secrets About Blog Series, and Get Sappy About Why I Do This. So my presentation with Kelly Jensen of STACKED at the Kidlitosphere Conference was this weekend and—spoiler—I think it went well!
I was so excited to discover that my publisher, Penguin Teen, released a Spring 2013 Preview of some “hot spring books”—and my own book, 17 & Gone, was one of the five books featured! That’s right: 17 & Gone comes out in the spring… but you can read the opening chapters for free right this […]
