…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 […]
I’m excited to share that my new novel 17 & Gone has been blurbed by Libba Bray, and she says some incredible things about the book that make me blush.
I taught my first online class with Mediabistro.com this spring/summer—a twelve-week YA novel writing class with some truly amazing students—and I’m happy to say I’ll be teaching a new online class starting this fall.
If you’re a book blogger and are headed to KidLitCon in New York City this year—September 28 and 29! (and the Saturday conference is entirely FREE)—you’ll see me there.
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.
