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September 5, 2013
September 3, 2013
Dare Me
Guys, I just read Megan Abbott’s Dare Me.
It is pretty great. It’s not technically YA but it’s about high school. One of the back cover blurbs compared it to Heathers and Fight Club which I’d agree with, but it also scrapes at its own specific and complicated issues and emotions.
Anyway, I am fortunate enough to have THREE EXTRA COPIES of Dare Me to give away! Just comment here with something you were once dared to do. It doesn’t have to be something you went through with!…or it does. Whichever...
August 27, 2013
INK Gets Its First Blurb!
I’m thrilled to announce that Ink Is Thicker than Water has received its first blurb, from an author I admire the pants off of:
“Amy Spalding has a knack for capturing the messiness of family in a way that feels as familiar and comforting as a pair of perfectly worn jeans or favorite pair of flip flops. With Ink Is Thicker than Water, Spalding depicts a blended family with compassion, humor, love, and pitch-perfect authenticity.”
–Trish Doller, author of Where the Stars Still Shine and Somethin...
August 22, 2013
Keeping It Real Event
I’m doing an event next month at my neighborhood bookstore Skylight books, and you should come. I mean, really. You should! Why not!
September 12
7:30pm
Keeping It Real
Maurene Goo
Corey Ann Haydu
Stephanie Kuehn
Amy Spalding
Moderated by: Aaron Hartzler
1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Click here for more info!
Be there or square!
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August 16, 2013
Announcing…Ted Callahan
Guys, here’s a true story:
Back in 2011, I was really depressed. I had an emotionally abusive dayjob. My writing career was going nowhere. My dad was sicker than usual. I kept having to take business trips…TO INDIANAPOLIS.
I didn’t know what to do: about my dayjob career, about my writing career, definitely not about Indianapolis.
So I said “SCREW IT” and started writing a book just for myself and my friends. I slipped in inside jokes and stupid references and my constant goal was to make mysel...
July 15, 2013
Ink Is Thicker than Water…has a cover!
Oh, and it’s gorgeous.
This was designed by the amazing Jessie Weinberg, with the tattoo designed by my favorite tattoo artist, Mike Erwin.
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May 6, 2013
Musical Theatre Monday – Corey Ann Haydu on The Fantasticks
Happy Musical Theatre Monday, yo. How are you celebrating? All ways are good ways. Today our guest bloggist is the adorable and talented Corey Ann Haydu, whose upcoming book OCD Love Story is one I’m quite, quite excited for. I will let Corey get to it!
COREY ANN HAYDU: I was meant to be a New Yorker.
Not only in the typical ways: I used to be an actress, I felt wildly out of place in Boston, I never wore fleece well enough to be a real New Englander, I have a Jersey father and like tiny spaces...
April 22, 2013
Musical Theatre Monday – Interview with Jason Graae
GUYS. MUSICAL THEATRE MONDAY IS BACK! YEAHHH it is. It is back with a bang, because in today’s thrilling installment, we have an interview with one of my favorite performers, Jason Graae. YEAH WE DO. Let’s get to it!
Jason Graae has been featured on Broadway in A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, Snoopy!!! and of course, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..? His many Off-Broadway shows include Forever Plaid (Original Sparky), Hello, Muddah, Hello, Fadduh (Drama Desk Award nomination-Bes...
April 17, 2013
VOYA and SLJ!
I’m thrilled/honored/etc. to have gotten such lovely reviews from VOYA and SLJ:
VOYA:
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Not many people will be in the exact same situation as Devan. As this story begins she is flying, with her mother’s lawyer, to go live with her mother. A high school junior, Devan has never met her mother, Reece Malcolm, but now, three months after her father’s death in an auto accident, Devan is being moved to Los Angeles from St. Louis. Devan’s mom, a best-selling and award-winning author, is a my...
March 26, 2013
A Bunch of Stuff
I went to New York!
Me with Lindsay Ribar and Tim Federle
Here are some things about New York and me:
Good gravy it was cold. How do you guys do it. Do you know there’s a city on the opposite coast where it’s warm and you get more square footage for your dollar? Just saying.
I went to my first high school event! This is scary because inside my brain somewhere I’m still as scared of being in a high school as I was when I was 17. Luckily the students were super cool and I had a great time.
I got to...
