EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW TO BE A NOVELIST, I LEARNED AS A BOOK NERD KID

2017-02-22T15:56:24-05:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: , , , |

I want to give thanks to the quiet nerdy girl I once was (and still am), and to the benevolent employees of my neighborhood Mecca growing up, Kepler’s Books, who pretended they didn’t see me curled up in their stacks, devouring the books gleaming brightly from their shelves. Below is a list of my favorite [...]

FIVE MOVIE/TV HEROINES THIS YA AUTHOR TREASURES

2017-02-14T21:15:01-05:00February 15th, 2017|Categories: Blog Posts|Tags: , , , |

As a writer, I love meeting the characters, and especially heroines, other writers have given the world. The following are some of my favorite chicas from TV and film, whose various awesomeness helped inspire the female characters Noa, Olivia, Isla, Sasha, and Hilo from my debut YA novel Shattered Blue, book one of The [...]

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