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10 Things I Wish I Knew About Being an Author I Didn’t Know Before The following first appeared as a guest post on Bookend2bookend.blogspot.com. Writing is hard. Well, that part I knew. But I thought it would get easier after I wrote and sold my first two young adult...

All month over at YA Outside the Lines the wonderful authors I blog with have been posting about first loves in literature—books, authors, and characters. When it comes to characters, I had a difficult time choosing between my two fave fictional fellas. Though their...

Today on the blog, I’m thrilled to be welcoming, Lisa Burstein, author of the young adult novels PRETTY AMY, THE NEXT FOREVER, and DEAR CASSIE, and the new adult novel SNEAKING CANDY, which I recently read and loved sooo much that I’ve convinced my book club to make...

So happy to be part of the official cover reveal of FERAL, the third YA novel by Holly Schindler. Check it out! I love it. So haunting. It’s too late for you. You’re dead. Those words float through Claire Cain’s head as she lies broken and barely alive after a brutal...

SUMMARY: THE JUNCTION OF SUNSHINE AND LUCKY by Holly Schindler: “Beasts of the Southern Wild” meets Because of Winn Dixie in this inspiring story of hope. Auggie Jones lives with her grandpa Gus, a trash hauler, in a poor part of town.  So when her wealthy classmate’s...

To celebrate today's release of A MAD, WICKED FOLLY, by the amazing Sharon Biggs Waller, I'm reposting my earlier interview with her. Congrats, Sharon!!! (Throws confetti.) Today on the blog I’m chatting with to Sharon Biggs Waller—writer extraordinaire, critique...

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/