17 & GONE Comes Out This Month
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!)
News
Fellowship to the Hambidge Center
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.
NYC Teen Author Festival This March
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?
Teaching at the New England SCBWI Conference This May
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 Wants to Read 17 & GONE
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!)
What Kiersten White Says About 17 & GONE
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!
KidLitCon Recap
…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!
A Sneak Peek at 17 & GONE
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 […]
What Libba Bray Says About 17 & GONE
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.
Teaching Another Online YA Novel Writing Class
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.
Presenting at KidLitCon
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.
The Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers
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.