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February 10, 2021
Sweethearts is 13?!
My second book, Sweethearts, came out 13 years ago this month. This feels almost impossible to believe!
What I remember about writing it: my first book, Story of a Girl, had been sold in a two-book deal, and, well, that meant I had to write a second book! It took approximately a billion years (okay, five) to write my first book, and now I had to write #2 in about a year.
Right around the time started thinking about new ideas, I got this email from my childhood sweethearts, who I hadn't seen since maybe third grade. We talked on the phone that night, two thirty-five-year-olds, and he'd been through a lot in the intervening years. He said something that hit me hard: during some of his hardest years in adolescence, I was his only uncomplicated good memory from childhood.
How could I not write a book about that?
A couple of years and seven drafts later, Sweethearts came out, and it's always going to be a special one to me and to a lot of readers.
You can usually find a good ebook deal on this one, and if you like audiobooks, I did the narration myself on this one (and several more of my books), so you can be assured it sounds exactly like I meant it to when I wrote it.
xo
SZ
February 6, 2021
My Next Book
On this very day, I'm working on some of the final edits for my next book, and I see GR already has it listed. It's coming out in about a YEAR, which tells you how far ahead of release the final work happens. It doesn't have a cover yet, but I've seen some preliminary sketches and they brought tears to my little eyes. Oh - this one is a middle grade! My first MG, but not my last, and still in that realism/contemporary/family wheelhouse I love so much. Add it to your want to read so you can be among the first to see the cover when it gets updated! -->
A Song Called Home
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February 5, 2021
I'm back!
Hi! I gave it a shot here when it was new back in 2007 and 2008, did not like all the rating system stuff, and left. I'm old enough to remember a time when books were not rated on the same five-star system as blenders!
It's a new year and a new decade, and I'm back! Mostly to be here as an author, though I might try out the reader features, too, and see if I like them more now.
In any case, thank you for visiting my author page and if commenting is a thing on these blogs, let me know what you're reading and what you love about goodreads!
SZ
Just finished:
It's a new year and a new decade, and I'm back! Mostly to be here as an author, though I might try out the reader features, too, and see if I like them more now.
In any case, thank you for visiting my author page and if commenting is a thing on these blogs, let me know what you're reading and what you love about goodreads!
SZ
Just finished:
