If you’re a young adult looking to size up the state of your peers these days, never fear. It will never be measured by the depths pop culture sinks to grab your attention. Those cringe-awful moments are merely the setting…
It comes up at every signing, writing conference, and even at the softball field. With expressions varying from horror to awe it’s always some form of the same question: You co-wrote DOON? How on earth does that work? Well, lucky…
For Immediate Release Wed, 07/24/2013 Contact: Jaclyn Finneke Communications Manager Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) 312-280-2128 jfinneke@ala.org Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) CHICAGO — The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) announces that Blink, a new young adult…
The lovely folks at BLINK asked me to write a blog post, but I am SO not a blogger. So I decided to do something a little different. I’m going to introduce one of the characters from Running Lean, sixteen-year-old…
I was recently in prison. Speaking. It was quite an experience speaking to so many young inmates. I’d estimate a hundred 17-24s single-filed into a very secure recreation hall. Take away the orange jumpsuits and the guards and I…
I am OBSESSED with Broadway Musicals. So when I learned that our publisher BLINK was sending Lorie and me to New York City for The BookExpo America, I immediately started scheming for a way for us to see Pippin during…
Once upon a time, in an office not so far away, a girl dreamed of being a published author. While this Cinder Girl sat at her computer for long hours, carving out perfect words and building stories with her bare…
Like all good stories, MERLIN’S BLADE began with a small seed. It wasn’t an image, a word, or an emotion … it was a question. Why would someone drive a sword into a stone? I knew why Arthur pulls the…
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