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The procrastinator’s guide to happiness

I am slightly suspicious of the efficient. As a classically-trained virtuoso of a procrastinator, people who get things done on time just creep me out a bit. Just what are they up to? Unfortunately, the efficient seem to rule the world. Or, at least, they are the loud minority. They monopolize the airwaves of filler […]

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Waiting for the end of the world

It’s not exactly that I want civilization to end or anything like that. It’s more that I have a strange fascination with the idea. While other summer readers are picking up a romance or a good current events book for their beachside entertainment, I am trolling to see if there are any good new disaster […]

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The smash

You once gave me a bottle of champagne. Before I got my book deal, for us to enjoy together in celebration “when” I got a book deal. You were the only one who used to say “when” and not “if” back in those days. And the bottle went into the refrigerator to await the day. […]

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Credit where credit is due

In the last week or so I have written about my pessimism with the direction the rhetoric has taken in this (still far-off) presidential election. Specifically, when Donald Trump said that he supported registering Muslims and that he wouldn’t be against “going into mosques” and prominent Republicans all seemed to agree with their silence, I […]

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The dangers of Thanksgiving

This is what my right index finger looks like and the serious Thanksgiving cooking is just beginning. Kitchens are dangerous, people. It’swhy I usually stay out of them.

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Why didn’t the boyfriend stay longer?

The other day I got a letter from a reader that said, “I loved your book. But I wish the boyfriend would have stayed longer!” I tend to agree with her. The boyfriend in THE SECRET SIDE OF EMPTY is a total sweetheart, based loosely on my high school boyfriend, who was also a really […]

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The Secret Side of Empty on School Library Journal

A few days ago I told you I’d gotten word about TSSoE being mentioned on SLJ. The link is finally online! Click here to read the full piece, which is entitled “Long-Awaited Mirrors: Latino Lit for Teens.” Lots of interesting reading suggestions in the article. Here’s a short blurb from the write-up: This is a […]

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1.5 Generation

Yesterday, I heard Chris Cuomo on CNN refer to himself as “second generation American.” Son of the former (now late) governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, and grandson to Italian immigrants, the self-identification irked me. If his grandparents were the first generation to come over, wouldn’t that make him third generation? The label has personal […]

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The Man in the High Castle

New obsession alert: this weekend I chomped through the entire first season of The Man in the High Castle, an Amazon original production. (An aside: I love that Netflix and now Amazon are diversifying our choices with original productions. So cool). The premise was what got me when I read the review: it is an […]

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Web errors

Some visitors reported error messages this past week, including some scary “Forbidden” messages when trying to access certain pages. Apologies! In trying to optimize the website for visitors coming on phones, we toyed with a plugin that shows certain content only to mobile visitors. Big fail! It started giving readers error messages instead. Anyway, the […]

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