Today on the blog I’m sooo happy to be chatting with Bethany Crandell, author of SUMMER ON THE SHORT BUS (Running Press April 1, 2014). Bethany and I “met” last year when she graciously asked if she could interview me for the blog OneFour Kidlit. (She asked fantastic...
When the finished copy of my young adult novel, FAMOUS LAST WORDS, arrived in the mail. I was thrilled to finally hold the first novel I’d ever written in my hands and I celebrated, not with confetti, champagne, or even a non-skinny caramel latte, but by watching...
I belong to a fantastic group of New Jersey writers called Women Who Write. Recently I was interviewed for their website. You can check out the super fun interview here. http://womenwhowrite.org/2013/10/16/interview-with-jen-doktorski/
Today on the blog I’m so happy to be talking to author Nancy Ohlin. She and I have a lot in common—a publisher, an amazing editor, and two books out this spring. Nancy’s young adult novels THORN ABBEY and BEAUTY, both with Simon Pulse, debuted on the same day! I’ve...
Today on the blog I’m thrilled to be featuring THE SUMMER I BECAME A NERD by my new author friend Leah Rae Miller. Her amazing novel has all the elements I love in a great story—summer, music, comics, a smart female protagonist, and loveable nerd boys. Oh and when I...
Summer always begins and end for me at the New Jersey shore. The real one. Come Memorial Day, that line from the song “Jersey Girl,” written by Tom Waits and released as a b-side by Bruce Springsteen in 1984 inevitably pops into my head. “`cause down the shore...