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My favorite guy

I’m not one to post pictures of my children here too often. But there are just those moments when you want to shout from the rooftops, and tonight is one. My little boy – who was so tiny just a minute ago – is now a young man. I was able to wrestle him into […]

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Texas Teen Book Festival

Today it was announced that I’ve been invited to participate in the Texas Teen Book Festival in Austin, Texas, on Saturday, September 26, 2015. The Texas Teen Book Festival is one of the biggest events of its kind in the country. It’s organized in conjunction with the awesome independent bookstore Book People, consistently one of […]

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Bar Harbor!

One of my favorite things about traveling to promote my books is getting to see beautiful places in the country. I’ve been everywhere from California to Massachusetts to Virginia, as well as all over the mid Atlantic region… and this fall I get to go to Bar Harbor, Maine, for the Bar Harbor Book Festival. […]

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Profile piece on VOYA

I am honored to be included in June’s issue of Voice of Youth Advocates, a leading journal for librarians who specialize in young adult books. I was interviewedby the journalist Haydee Camacho and I just got a scan of the piece yesterday. It covers new ground, like: what’s the one book event that made me […]

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BooksNJ: See you Sunday!

I just love book festivals, but BooksNJ has a special place in my heart. First, it’s right in my backyard in Paramus, New Jersey. Second, since it’s local, manyof my FAVORITE local peeps will be speaking and appearing on panels. Third, it only happens every other year, so it’s got a sparkly air of rarity […]

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Privacy

I’ve been posting daily (or close to it) on this blog for a little over two years now. It’s been massively helpful to me in a variety of ways. It helps me commit to writing daily. It gives people a place to learn more about my book and my writing in general. It gives me […]

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Up to the edge and then…

I walked up to the edge, still amazed that it was so easy to get there. For years it has felt like some impossible mystery. Something I had to crack but couldn’t. Suddenly, up close and personal, there it was: banal. Easy to get. Changing nothing, not the wave of a magic wand at all. […]

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Manspreading

I have a running list of “things I wonder about” written in the Notes section of my phone. Fodder for blog posts, random thoughts, things that irk me which somehow feel better written down. I fly a lot, and on my last flight I added to my list: “why do men always take the arm […]

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Is it working?

I’ll never forget the day I realized that I’d been booked to go to a conference for work in Las Vegas the same day my daughter was graduating from fifth grade. I was at a new job with a pretty strict boss. I’d already said I could go, not realizing that the two events were […]

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Fundamental

Recently, I had to go to a conference for work. It catered to the educational wants of religious fundamentalists (don’t ask) and was full of “biblically inspired” educational materials. Young Earth Creationist science textbooks. (You know, the kind in which it’s “proven” that humans once rode dinosaurs because Earth is 6,000 years old). “Wholesome” […]

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