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Heidi R. Kling

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Born
Los Angeles, The United States
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John Green, Gayle Forman, Judy Blume, Jandy Nelson

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November 2008

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Heidi R. Kling writes books about normal girls in fantastic situations.

Her debut novel SEA (Penguin/Putnam) was a finalist for Northern California Book of the Year," an IndieNext Summer Pick, Goodreads “Mover and Shaker," Scholastic Reading Pick, and Gateway Reader’s Award Finalist among other generous accolades. SEA, which launched June, 2010, is a bittersweet love story set in the aftermath of the devastating 2004 Indonesian tsunami, and is set to relaunch with Entangled Teen December 4 as WHERE I FOUND YOU (Sea series #1) with its sequel WHERE THE SEA TAKES ME out April, 2018!


After earning her MFA in Writing for Children from the New School in New York, Heidi returned to the Bay Area where she lives with her family in a tiny seaside vi
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Heidi R. Kling Life. There are so many ideas in the ordinary that, if you shape them right, become extraordinary.
Heidi R. Kling Yes!! Thank you so much for checking back! OF EARTH AND SKY will be out in 2017. It's so fun revisiting the characters again. :)

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Yes!! Thank you so much for checking back! OF EARTH AND SKY will be out in 2017. It's so fun revisiting the characters again. :)

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“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.”
Heidi R. Kling

“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
Heidi R. Kling, Sea

“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
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“Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.”
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“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”
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“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”
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“Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious.”
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Eugenia (Genie In A Book) Thank you so much for accepting my friend request 
I look forward to reading and discovering more of your work.

Best wishes for more books in the future,
Genie


message 13: by Heidi

Heidi Cheryl wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request, Heidi."

you're welcome!


message 12: by Heidi

Heidi Jennifer wrote: "Thanks for the friendship, Heidi. I love the cover of "Sea"!"

Thank you!


message 11: by Heidi

Heidi TheGreenEyedMonster wrote: "Heyyy Heidi!
Thanks for the befriending!

lovely book!

Darcy x."


Glad you liked it!


message 10: by Cheryl

Cheryl Landmark Thanks for accepting my friend request, Heidi.


Jennifer Lane Thanks for the friendship, Heidi. I love the cover of "Sea"!


TheGreenEyedMonster Heyyy Heidi!
Thanks for the befriending!

lovely book!

Darcy x.


message 7: by Heidi

Heidi Lenni wrote: "Thanks for accepting! I absolutly adored Sea. It was one of the most lovely books I've ever read."

Thanks so much!


message 6: by Lenni

Lenni Thanks for accepting! I absolutly adored Sea. It was one of the most lovely books I've ever read.


message 5: by Heidi

Heidi Carla wrote: "huzzah mon pip!" :D




message 4: by Carla

Carla huzzah mon pip!


message 3: by Heidi

Heidi Dani wrote: "Thanks for the add, cant wait to read Sea! Only 161 days left according to the countdown! :)"
Thank you!



message 2: by Dani

Dani Thanks for the add, cant wait to read Sea! Only 161 days left according to the countdown! :)


message 1: by Liz

Liz Good to see you here!
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