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Mark your calendar: Hillsborough NJ Book Festival

I am thrilled to announce that I’ve been asked to participate in the first-ever Hillsborough New Jersey Book Festival on Saturday, May 17th from 10 am to 3 pm. Exciting! I will update the site as details become available (including the full roster of all the other authors you can meet at the festival). But […]

“A novel about the high price of keeping secrets”

You’d expect that a novel named THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY is a little about keeping secrets. That’s just one of the reasons I love this review from the super-site TeenReads.com. It starts, “THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY is a novel about the high price of keeping secrets and the desperate need to find somewhere […]

An interview about being fearless

Here’s something you might not know: every year, a group of YA (young adult) and MG (middle grade) authors debuting in the following year get together and form a community. They come from all genres and publishing houses and all parts of the country and the world. They set up a private chat room, work […]

“The themes are universal…” a marvelous review

One of today’s reviews is at Tales of the Marvelous, where the blogger quotes L. Frank Baum in her right rail, “”Since I can remember, my eyes have always grown big at tales of the marvelous.” With a start like that, I knew I’d love her take on the book. And I was right. Cheryl […]

In Los Angeles on Saturday!

Just a reminder that I will be on a panel in Los Angeles at the L.A. Public Library this coming Saturday. If you’re in the area I’d love to meet you! Click here for details. For those of you NOT following me to Los Angeles (and seriously, why aren’t you coming with me?!) I will […]

News just in: spring apparently not just a rumor

Yesterday, dazed New Yorkers stumbled out of their gray caverns and wondered why their scarves and polar-quality mittens were suddenly so itchy. Those of us in the suburbs wandered outside, confused by this bright yellow thing in the sky and by the fact that the wind no longer appeared to be trying to kill us. […]

From undocumented immigrant to published author – guest post

I am honored to be part of an amazing community of young adult writers debuting their novels in 2014 (like I am!). We call ourselves the OneFours and we spend lots of time on a list-serve surviving and celebrating the process of publishing our first YA novels. They also own Twitter, apparently. They tweet up […]

The place where the light enters you

Blog posts to promote books can take on many forms. Sometimes bloggers give you a Q&A, other times they post a review of your book. Sometimes they allow you to do what’s called a “guest post,” which, as the name suggests, means you post on their blog as a guest. These are both the best […]

Launch Day Giveway

If you don’t yet have your copy of THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, (gasp… why not?), you can enter to win one right now! Open only until Thursday, this will probably be my last Goodreads giveaway, if not forever then for a while. Enter now and tell your friends!: Goodreads Book Giveaway The Secret […]

Interviewed at The New School

I spent my book birthday eve last night at The New School in Manhattan being interviewed by a class full of writers. They asked interesting questions and will be writing pieces about the evening as part of their assignment for the week. Eager to read what they come up with! It was particularly sweet because […]