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I’ll be answering your questions tomorrow–feel free to leave any last minute ones here!  One of the questions someone emailed me was about why I chose to write a young-adult novel as opposed to an adult novel.  I loved that question and thought it deserved it’s own blog post!  So let’s do it. Young-adult literature […]

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Why I Love YA Lit.

1.  It’s supposed to be 88 degrees today, and I will be enjoying every single one of those degrees by the pool. 2.  I haven’t really been sleeping, and while that kind of sucks as a whole, I’ve had time to make things like this: gold & glitter & ampersands, these are a few of […]

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I’m happy to be alive because of gold & glitter & cheap headbands.

Happy almost-Friday!  I don’t know about you guys, but I’m loving April so far. Florida life is the best life. Anyway, a lot of you have either emailed me or commented here that you would be interested in hearing more about the whole book writing//publishing process.  That’s great with me, because writing is my favorite […]

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