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September 30, 2010
Blog: Old enough to be your mother!
I was always young-looking for my age. When I was 13, I looked 11. When I was 21, I looked 16. My face could never keep up with my real age, it seemed. Which wasn't a bad thing. It was mostly just annoying in my early-20s when bouncers would try to turn me away at clubs and tell me that my I.D. was fake.
I'm now a few days away from being 33. I'm not sure how old I look to most people (and seriously, no need to tell me!), but apparently I look at least 33 to one woman in my town.
On Friday, Dwayne and I went to the high school football game (which we LOVED). On our way in we passed various adults giving out thingamajigs: A pamphlet for a woman running for judge, golden-yellow signs that read "GO SHORECREST" on one side and had info regarding a voting initiative on the other, etc, etc. After we grabbed our sign and rushed past the others, a woman called out, "Excuse me, Shorecrest parents!"
She was addressing us, and she wasn't phrasing it as a question. She seemed certain that we were parents. Parents of high school students!
Technically, yes, we could be. If we'd hooked up with I was 17 and he was 19 and then I got pregnant and had a baby when I was 18 and he was 20, we could totally have a 15-year-old son or daughter right now.
And that? Is just alarming. I mean, I've pretty much known since I was 16 that I'll never be an actor. But now that people think I'm grown-up age and not teen-age--that I would play the mom in a movie -- my world is a bit askew.
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As promised: The most recent stops on the FREEFALL blog tour with Teen {Book} Scene are:
The book trailer at Erika Breathes Books
Kelsey's review of FREEFALL at The Book Scout
An interview with me by Hattie at DeRaps Reads
I also wrote a guest blog about "The Call" for the We Do Write blog.
I'm now a few days away from being 33. I'm not sure how old I look to most people (and seriously, no need to tell me!), but apparently I look at least 33 to one woman in my town.
On Friday, Dwayne and I went to the high school football game (which we LOVED). On our way in we passed various adults giving out thingamajigs: A pamphlet for a woman running for judge, golden-yellow signs that read "GO SHORECREST" on one side and had info regarding a voting initiative on the other, etc, etc. After we grabbed our sign and rushed past the others, a woman called out, "Excuse me, Shorecrest parents!"
She was addressing us, and she wasn't phrasing it as a question. She seemed certain that we were parents. Parents of high school students!
Technically, yes, we could be. If we'd hooked up with I was 17 and he was 19 and then I got pregnant and had a baby when I was 18 and he was 20, we could totally have a 15-year-old son or daughter right now.
And that? Is just alarming. I mean, I've pretty much known since I was 16 that I'll never be an actor. But now that people think I'm grown-up age and not teen-age--that I would play the mom in a movie -- my world is a bit askew.
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As promised: The most recent stops on the FREEFALL blog tour with Teen {Book} Scene are:The book trailer at Erika Breathes Books
Kelsey's review of FREEFALL at The Book Scout
An interview with me by Hattie at DeRaps Reads
I also wrote a guest blog about "The Call" for the We Do Write blog.
September 28, 2010
New Vlog: "Author Fashions"
In all the book trailer excitement, I almost forgot that it's Vlog Day, today. But it is!
Fun facts about this video:
1. The lighting is a little horrific, despite my efforts to make it otherwise. I had the overhead light and FOUR lamps on room to try to brighten the room up. Sigh.
2. I keep feeling paranoid that I pronounced Maggie Stiefvater's last name wrong. But I'm pretty sure she's said it's "STEVE-Otter." Which is what I said. I think....
3. As with most of my vlogs, previewing this one caused Dwayne cover his face with what might have been discomfort at least once. I understand the feeling.
Fun facts about this video:
1. The lighting is a little horrific, despite my efforts to make it otherwise. I had the overhead light and FOUR lamps on room to try to brighten the room up. Sigh.
2. I keep feeling paranoid that I pronounced Maggie Stiefvater's last name wrong. But I'm pretty sure she's said it's "STEVE-Otter." Which is what I said. I think....
3. As with most of my vlogs, previewing this one caused Dwayne cover his face with what might have been discomfort at least once. I understand the feeling.
September 27, 2010
This is a link to the official Freefall book trailer!
My blog tour with Teen {Book} Scene started TODAY! Which means that my book comes out in eight days. Eeeeek!There will be fifteen stops over the next few weeks with contests, interviews (with me and with a character), guest blogs, an excerpt, and a deleted scene. I'll be sure to link to the next stop here every day. I'm also going to have other interviews popping up, so I'll link to those as I find out about them.
The very first stop on the tour is at Erika's blog, Erika Breathes Books. A...
September 26, 2010
Blog: Invite/Reminder for my first two FREEFALL signing events!
As you probably know, FREEFALL, a novel I wrote is being published by Simon & Schuster and will be available for purchase in the U.S and Canada on October 5, 2010. (And, I believe, but don't quote me, in the U.K. and Australia in December 2010.)
In honor of this, some actual bookstores are going to have me visit to talk about the books and to sign copies of the book and such. If I somehow missed spamming your email or FB, please consider this your official invitation to those events. If ...
In honor of this, some actual bookstores are going to have me visit to talk about the books and to sign copies of the book and such. If I somehow missed spamming your email or FB, please consider this your official invitation to those events. If ...
September 25, 2010
Blog: Easy A and Slutty Sluts of Slut town - (not really a movie review)
I've been intrigued by the movie EASY A ever since I saw the trailer a couple of months ago, so I went out and watched the movie this week. (The trailer is below. You're welcome.)
Did you watch the trailer? All right, good! So you now know that EASY A is the story of Olive, who stops being invisible after she starts a rumor about losing her virginity and then goes on a spree of fake-rocking boys' worlds. This is an example of how empathy and the need to be noticed can be a really, really ...
Did you watch the trailer? All right, good! So you now know that EASY A is the story of Olive, who stops being invisible after she starts a rumor about losing her virginity and then goes on a spree of fake-rocking boys' worlds. This is an example of how empathy and the need to be noticed can be a really, really ...
September 24, 2010
Blog: Eating my way through Thursday.
Yesterday, my husband and I each had the day off from work, so we spent some time together hanging out, watching EASY A at the movie theatre, and . . . eating.
Now, I try to eat somewhat healthfully. I get in a lot of fruits and vegetables an
d avoid too much sugar and fat and the like.
But sometimes I do like to have some not-good-for-me stuff. You know, like salt & vinegar potato chips, Jelly Bellys, fries, a veggie corn dog, and cherry lemonade from Hot Dog on a Stick, onion rings, img
September 23, 2010
AUTHOR EVENTS: Denise Jaden's launch party for Losing Faith
This past weekend, my friend Matt and I made the drive up north to British Columbia to attend Denise Jaden's LOSING FAITH book launch party. The event was held at The Reach Gallery and upon entry, I spotted this:
Why, yes, those are four Andy Warhol pieces on the wall behind the podium that I snapped from a far away distance while I was testing out my camera with and without flash in preparation for the event. As you might know, I have an inexplicable thing for Andy Warhol's art and it fills...
Why, yes, those are four Andy Warhol pieces on the wall behind the podium that I snapped from a far away distance while I was testing out my camera with and without flash in preparation for the event. As you might know, I have an inexplicable thing for Andy Warhol's art and it fills...
Blog: I have a Mockingjay T-shirt!
My husband's band played an acoustic set at the Hot Topic, which means he got a discount on clothes, which means I now have a Mockingjay T-shirt.
Because, really, when else can one wear YA merch that doesn't happen to be Harry Potter or Twilight movie stuff?
(Ignore the crazy look on my face. I'm desperately tired, okay?)
Because, really, when else can one wear YA merch that doesn't happen to be Harry Potter or Twilight movie stuff?
(Ignore the crazy look on my face. I'm desperately tired, okay?)
September 21, 2010
Blog: Bringing the Awkward with a book's subject matter.
There was a time where people asking what my book was about would cause me The Anxiety. I'd say things like, "It's about a boy who... is in a band... and, um, his best friend died. But it isn't as depressing as all that! Because he takes this class and, you know, meets this girl. And ...stuff."
And people would stare at me all O.O and I'd think to myself that I should never be allowed to tell anyone what my book is about ever again because I kept botching the pitch.
After the book deal,...
And people would stare at me all O.O and I'd think to myself that I should never be allowed to tell anyone what my book is about ever again because I kept botching the pitch.
After the book deal,...
September 20, 2010
Blog: #SPEAKLoudly
I once read something to the effect of “Victims have no choice in becoming victims, but after it happens, victims are the only people who can make the choice to become survivors.”
The first part of that statement can be the hardest part for a person who has been sexually abused or assaulted to accept. Many of victims believe that what happened to them was their fault. That if they’d done this and this and this, they could have prevented it. Sometimes people even tell them this by asking...
