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Add BEING FRIENDS WITH BOYS To Your Summer Reading Pile!

Been meaning to read BEING FRIENDS WITH BOYS and haven’t yet? Well, there is a...
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The Page Turners Have Spoken, And They Are Conflicted!

There are many fantastic elements to my job as a bookseller at Little Shop of...
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What My Desk Looks Like Right Now

The draft of my next book, IN DEEP has been turned in, but that doesn’t...
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How Wes Anderson Inspired Me

There’s a new movie out that you may have heard of called “Moonrise Kingdom.” Perhaps...
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Whole Lotta Teaching Going On

One of the very few plusses to leaving my job as Program Director of the...
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Pocket Full of Regret

To continue the discussion around the themes in CRIMINAL, I invited a couple of author...
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What Would YOU Really Do?

To continue the conversation about the themes in CRIMINAL this month, I asked a special round of...
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Love Is Blindness

Folks are already taking notice of one of the biggest themes in Criminal: that sometimes love can...
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The Sad Jackal Logo, Revealed!

Thanks to everyone who voted in the Being Friends With Boys Sad Jackal band logo...
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Happy Paperback, Sad Jackal!!

Voting for the Sad Jackal band logo contest is now closed. The winner will be...
Book cover showing a boat on water with autumn leaves, titled 'Raft of Grief' by Chelsea Rathburn.

Sailing Away with Poet Chelsea Rathburn

While working for the AJC Decatur Book Festival, I was able to meet and collaborate...
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My First Book Was Actually A Collection of Poetry

I know, I know. You thought my first publication was Pure. It’s understandable, since only 500...