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I won something! (I never win things!)

It’s called the Margaret Edwards Award and is given by the American Library Association. According to its website, it “annually recognizes an author and ‘a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature’.” I was SO shocked and flattered to be chosen for this, you guys. It’s a huge honor and I’m really, really honored.

ONCE AND FOR ALL cover reveal and excerpt!

Want details on my new novel, due in June 2017?

Check out an excerpt here!

Can’t WAIT for you all to read it!

NEW BOOK IN SUMMER 2017!

You guys.

I have had to keep this news secret for SO long. I am thrilled to finally share that my 13th novel (lucky, right?), ONCE AND FOR ALL, with be out in summer 2017. I can’t wait for you guys to read it!

Read the official announcement in PW here:http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by....

I know I’ve been MIA from this blog and, well, everything for awhile. I was working HARD writing this book from January to...

New Cover for The Truth About Forever!

You guys, I am so excited to share the new cover for the paperback of The Truth About Forever! It makes me think of Wes, which is never a bad thing.

Hope to have more fun stuff to share SOON. Stay tuned!

B-FEST at the Barnes and Noble in Clifton, NJ , June 11th!

SO excited to announce my first public event in, well, ages. (I’ve been writing! So I have a good excuse!) Come see me in at the Barnes and Noble at Clifton Commons in Clifton, NJ! I’ll be the one talking WAAY too much because I haven’t been out in public in awhile. Hope to see you there!

Saint Anything coming in paperback on May 31st!

Excited to announce that SAINT ANYTHING will be released in paperback on May 31st, just in time for summer reading! Hoping to have some fun stuff to announced along with it. Stay tuned….

Oh, well.

At the end of August, I decided it was time to start my next book. It had been a few months since Saint Anything came out, and the promotion side of things was winding down. Moreover, it had been a year and a half since I finished writing that book. Normally, I would have started a new project somewhere in that 18 months, worked myself into a fit when it wasn’t working, and abandon it. I know my history and my cycles. So I decided I would Wait Until I Was Ready.But then, my kid went back to...

Upcoming Event: Decatur Book Festival!

I’ll be there on Saturday, September 4th. My first trip and I am so excited! More info ishere.Come say hello!

The Thing About Saving Someone’s Life…

..is that you don’t want to admit that you did, or assume it, even if you know it’s true. Like doing so will put them at risk again, because who the hell are you?

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

This time two days ago, I was on vacation in Cape Cod with my extended family. My parents have a house outside Falmouth and I’ve gone pretty much every summer of my life, first as a kid, now with my own family. It was our last day, our last afternoon, and my daughter really wanted to go for a final s...

Bean salad recipe. Because summer.

Okay, so it’s late June, the holiday weekend is approaching, and of course that has me thinking about food. (Everything makes me think about food, though.) That aside, I was tweeting the other day about my bean salad recipe, and someone asked for it. So I figured I will share it here on this page, where it can live in perpetuity.

I got this recipe from the Food section of my local paper,The News and Observer, many years ago. It quickly became my go-to recipe for cookouts, potlucks, family eve...