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Get off my non-lawn, Superbowl

You know you’ve been in New York too long when things that other people would find fascinating and cool – like movie shoots and news trucks – just make you mutter under your breath and speed up. I had just this type of moment this morning. It was smack dab in the middle of my […]

[PHOTOS] Book signing in at ALA Midwinter 2014 in Philadelphia

You know when you really, really want something and then you get it… and then it’s even better than you’d hoped? That sums up my experience at my very first book signing. People actually lined up… to get me to sign my book for them! Asked me to make it out to themselves/their daughter/their class/their […]

How does Maria Andreu feel about her life in America

I’m starting to get more emails now from people I don’t know who have heard about my book but don’t know me personally. One yesterday sort of blew my mind. Subject line, “how does maria andreu feel about her life in america,” assuming, I suppose, that I have minions who screen my emails.As someone who […]

Nose pressed up against the glass no more

There is a wonderful scene in the 1939 film version of Wuthering Heights (I was a weird kid – I absolutely adored this movie) in which Heathcliff and Catherine sneak on to the grounds of the Linton house at night. The Lintons, the rich neighbors, are having a grand party. Heathcliff and Catherine watch through […]

Guide to ALA Midwinter

Going to the American Library Association Midwinter conference? The fun is already getting underway! Check out this handy guide from School Library Journal. (And see information about my Saturday signing on page 6!). Click here. If you’ll be in Philly this weekend, be sure to stop by the Perseus booth #640 at 2:00 pm on […]

More on Kirkus’ review of The Secret Side of Empty

Kirkus calls THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY, “empathetic yet gritty.” Read the full review here.

Read the Kirkus Review of The Secret Side of Empty

Waiting for reviews of your book to come in is like sending your baby off to kindergarten and then waiting all day to find out if she cried and was miserable or made friends and had fun. Nerve-racking. That’s why it was a huge relief to get the first review of The Secret Side of […]

Tweet tweet

Are you following me on Twitter yet? No? Don’t worry, neither is anyone else. I have an anemic 136 followers (way better than the 50-something I had a few weeks ago) but I definitely get an A for effort this week. And things are about to get way exciting as I live tweet ALA Midwinter […]

Updates on the book’s release

T-minus four days and counting until my very first book signing at American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting. Excited! And wondering… what if no one shows up? Argh. Not knowing the future really irks me sometimes. I’m focusing on plans to live tweet the event. Not being much of a tweeter, we’ll see how this goes. […]

Christina Hendricks, I love you

I’ve been watching Mad Men (finally, I know) as part of an assignment for a TV writing workshop I’m taking. I like its complicated and moody characters and the struggle of women on the show. But it wasn’t until I was in a changing room the other day that I realized just how much what […]