Hearts Unbroken: Writing (Sort Of) Timeless Contemporary Realistic Fiction

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The second in a series of four posts celebrating the Oct. 9 release of my realistic contemporary YA novel, Hearts Unbroken (Candlewick).

We’re all living in the past, present and future.

Perhaps that’s never so true as on the page.

My 2018 YA novel, Hearts Unbroken, is set about a year after the ending of my 2001 debut tween novel, (HarperCollins). The protagonists, Louise and Rain, are cousi...