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Book Deal!!!
A photo of me in Boone, NC, the town that inspired the fictional Falling Rock, NC, in The After Girls. I’ve been meaning to announce this for awhile, but between being superstitious/paranoid about...
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Cover Debut, Catalog, and Amazon Link (This is Really Happening)
Friday was a good day. A day when it really finally hit me. I have a book coming out and it is really, truly going to be published … on paper … with a cover and everything … with my name! A lot of...
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Parking spots and book deals
I was parking on Friday in my neighborhood and marveled at how I always seem to get a spot without much searching. And yet on the street where I park there is almost always only one spot left. Do I...
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Author copies of The After Girls are here!
They’re here! Delivered in two big boxes! With my name all over! It’s definitely all very surreal. And when I open one up, it looks and feels like a real book. And it is. I don’t really have much to...
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Awesome Girl in Fiction: Arya Stark
I’ve posted before on feminism role models in YA literature, and while the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) isn’t exactly YA, given the age of Arya at the beginning...
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Friday Happiness: Friendship and Reviews
I think there’s a special bond between writer friends. You share your work with each other (often at its rawest), you trust another person not to judge your shitty first draft, and at the same time...
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Book birthday month, wahoo!
It’s no longer April Fools Day so it’s worth mentioning that this is the month my first book, The After Girls, officially comes out! Yay! I’m still a weird mix of nerves and excitement, but this is how...
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My advice for up-and-coming writers in Sadie magazine
Image by the talented Molly Schulman via Sadie Happy Saturday! I’m excited to share a little piece I did for Sadie magazine, a very cool online pub for young women. Sadie asked me to share tips and...
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The After Girls is officially out! A little on how it all began
So The After Girls is out today. I could talk about how nervous I am, but I already did that to excess yesterday. So I thought I’d share a little on how I got from an idea to a book that’s out in the...
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New Interviews: On Writing Inspiration, Struggles and my Current Creepy...
Happy Monday! I enjoyed an amazing weekend of awesome San Francisco activities and productive writing (finished exactly 1/3 of the news project …). I also had the pleasure of doing two interviews...
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The After Girls Selected as a Kindle Daily Deal!! Just $1.99 All Day Tomorrow!
Happy Sunday! On this lovely weekend afternoon, I have a little good news to share about THE AFTER GIRLS! It’s been selected as a Kindle Daily Deal for the YA category tomorrow (August 19). That means...
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Big news! A new book of mine is coming out!
I’ve been excitedly sitting on this news for a bit, and I am so thrilled to finally be able to share! I’ve got a book coming out! From Harper Collins! YAY!!! I started working on this book when I moved...
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The Romantics, my love letter to Chapel Hill, North Carolina
So if you’ve read my books, you know that I have a thing for North Carolina. It’s where I went to high school and college, and though I haven’t lived there in some time, I still treasure the years I...
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