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More Stories About Getting #indeep

All day today to celebrate the release of In Deep, authors and friends are sharing their...
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Getting Even Deeper #indeep

The conversation keeps coming in celebration of the release of In Deep! To wrap things up...
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Returned Home from Yale Writers Workshop!

I spent the last few days leading a Children’s and Young Adult writing workshop at...
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Chatting 17 FIRST KISSES with Rachael Allen

It’s no secret that I love interviewing other writers, but in the last couple of...
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A Criminally Good Playlist

Recently I held a contest wherein you could win a signed copy of Criminal and the playlist...
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Maybe I Didn’t Win, but YOU Still Can!

Well, the MWA Edgars Award event in New York was fantastic, and even though Criminal didn’t take...
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love

I’m so crazy-excited about Corey Ann Haydu’s upcoming novel Life By Committee, that I even blurbed...
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When Wrong Feels Right and Then Wrong Again

To continue keep conversation around the themes in Criminal (which released in paperback earlier this month) going...
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CRIMINAL, Revisited: What Would YOU Do??

The paperback of Criminal is finally here! This means –if you’re like the book clubs I’m in–...
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Writing = Rewriting

This week I spoke to several sixth grade classes at Renfroe Middle School, and the...
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Discussing the AMERICAN AFTERLIFE with Kate Sweeney

Living in Atlanta has a lot of perks, but one of the biggest ones is...
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I Got *My* Certificate . . .

I still don’t have my dress for the awards ceremony, and we won’t know until...