Blog Archive
Every post from the blog, 2011 onward — author interviews, book news, events and the occasional giveaway.
2024
- April 8, 2024 New Agent: Sara Crowe!
2023
- May 11, 2023 The Scenic Route to Finishing a Novel
2020
- April 23, 2020 Support local indies when purchasing books online!
2019
- May 8, 2019 Paperback Party with Erin Entrada Kelly, May 19
- March 20, 2019 Speaking the Truth in YA: Three Conversations
- March 14, 2019 Don't Miss the NYC Teen Author Festival! (I'll be appearing Saturday, March 30 but there are tons more author events from March 24-31)
- February 13, 2019 How to Disappear is coming soon... in paperback!
2018
- December 5, 2018 Give the gift of books... PLUS signed book plates and bookmarks from me!
- February 19, 2018 Finding joy amid the grief
2017
- November 8, 2017 Goodreads Giveaway!
- October 16, 2017 Bringing Vicurious to Life (IRL!)
- October 2, 2017 #PubforPR - Help us raise money for Puerto Rico hurricane relief, Auction open through Oct. 5th
- September 22, 2017 Two book festivals this weekend (Sept. 23-24)!!!
- September 13, 2017 San Francisco, here I come!
- September 7, 2017 I went to the National Book Festival and it was awesome! Here's why:
- August 26, 2017 HOW TO DISAPPEAR is... appearing now in a bookstore near you!
- August 8, 2017 Two Giveaways to Celebrate HOW TO DISAPPEAR... featuring OwlCrate, plus six of my favorite authors!
- July 10, 2017 HOW TO DISAPPEAR Pre-Order Giveaway! Open Internationally!
- June 28, 2017 HOW TO DISAPPEAR Launch Party and Other Events!
- June 13, 2017 A Starred Review from School Library Journal!
- June 5, 2017 Kirkus Review for HOW TO DISAPPEAR
- May 30, 2017 Twitter ARC Giveaway for Teens Only!
- May 12, 2017 ARC giveaway of HOW TO DISAPPEAR plus paperback of Maggie Thrash's HONOR GIRL
- April 11, 2017 Thank you, YA Scavenger Hunters! Also more chances to win an ARC of HOW TO DISAPPEAR (or pre-order!)
- April 4, 2017 YA Scavenger Hunt – Enter to win by April 9!
- March 29, 2017 All the Pretty Author Blurbs...
- March 28, 2017 YASH (the YA Scavenger Hunt) is coming, April 4-9! I'm on Team Gold, which is clearly the best. I hope you win all these books!
- February 14, 2017 HOW TO DISAPPEAR Blurb Reveal and ARC Giveaway
- January 24, 2017 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Nominees
2016
- December 19, 2016 Festival of Words brings diverse authors and ideas to Delaware, February 16, 2017
- December 9, 2016 Giving my book as a gift? I'll send a personalized bookmark for the recipient (and one for you, too!)
- November 28, 2016 Enter to Win ARCs (Advance Reader Copies) of these FOUR summer 2017 YA novels - Instagram giveaway
- October 24, 2016 Cover Reveal and Advance Reader Copy (ARC) Giveaway for HOW TO DISAPPEAR!
- September 21, 2016 Baltimore Book Festival Here I Come!
- September 10, 2016 If you've read BETWEEN THE NOTES and want a signed bookmark, I'll send you one!
- July 19, 2016 Goodreads Giveaway of BETWEEN THE NOTES!
- June 16, 2016 BETWEEN THE NOTES + Friends Bookmark Giveaway
- June 1, 2016 Happy Bookiversary! Celebrating my debut year with some favorite books of 2015...
- May 2, 2016 Encouraging young writers… or leading them astray? What one fan letter revealed about the pressures teens face to choose more “realistic” careers.
- April 29, 2016 Indie Bookstore Day at Aaron's Books, Lititz, PA!
- March 25, 2016 Fill Your Easter Baskets With Books!
- March 22, 2016 In which I channel Kwame Alexander for a YA retelling of Jane Eyre at #NYCTAF
- February 15, 2016 A Post-Valentine's Look at Love in Between the Notes + Goodreads Giveaway!
2015
- December 18, 2015 My 2015 Top Ten List (of moments to remember every time my book doesn't make a top ten list)
- December 16, 2015 My 2015 Reading Journal!
- November 28, 2015 My Last Book Event of the Year...
- November 22, 2015 Nov. 28 is Small Business Saturday—The Book-Lover's Answer to Black Friday
- November 5, 2015 November 15: YA Lit Extravaganza!
- October 29, 2015 'Tis the Season... for Book Signings!
- October 6, 2015 The Not-So-Fearless Fifteeners—coming soon to a bookstore near you (DC, VA)!
- October 1, 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt! (And bonus giveaway)
- September 23, 2015 Goodreads Giveaway!
- September 22, 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt, October 1-4. Go Blue Team!
- September 1, 2015 September 5 in Washington DC: BETWEEN THE NOTES (and me!) at the National Book Festival! Woo Hoo!
- July 16, 2015 Celebrating One Month of BETWEEN THE NOTES with a Goodreads Giveaway!
- July 10, 2015 Coming soon to Oregon and Washington!
- June 18, 2015 I was too busy celebrating my book launch and stalking Barnes & Noble to post this earlier
- June 15, 2015 On Writing a Retelling: Q&A with Stephanie Oakes, author of THE SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY
- May 28, 2015 My Book Launch is Coming! My Book Launch is Coming!
- May 19, 2015 Book Giveaway and Release Day Guest Post by Hilary T. Smith, author of A SENSE OF THE INFINITE
- May 13, 2015 Celebrating One Month Until Release Date of BETWEEN THE NOTES with an ARC giveaway!
- April 28, 2015 I'll be at Books of Wonder in New York on June 20. Will you? (Please say yes. I'm dying to see you!)
- April 16, 2015 A Debut Author's Guide to Planning Book Events
- April 7, 2015 Bookstore Love: The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, N.C. (Guest Post by Laurie McKay)
- April 6, 2015 My Goodreads Giveaway Ends at Midnight!
- April 2, 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt
- March 28, 2015 Bookmarks for you!
- March 25, 2015 Are you ready to win ALL the books? YA Scavenger Hunt Begins April 2!
- March 23, 2015 YA Scavenger Hunt: Coming soon to a blog near you...
- March 16, 2015 Bookstore Love: New York's Books of Wonder
- March 11, 2015 International Giveaway of 2 signed ARCs (advance reader copies) on Goodreads!
- March 10, 2015 Bookstore Love: Austin's BookPeople
- February 21, 2015 Praise for BETWEEN THE NOTES
- February 10, 2015 Four days left to win the best Valentine's gift ever: 16 contemporary YA debut novels!
- February 2, 2015 We HEART Contemporary! Giveaway! 16 books! Winner take all! Can you tell that I am excited?!?
2014
- December 26, 2014 Under the Tree in 2014: My True Love Gave to Me, A Thousand Pieces of You, and a whole bunch more
- October 16, 2014 Cover Reveal and Giveaway on YA Highway!
- September 9, 2014 BETWEEN THE NOTES gets a birthdate
- May 26, 2014 #My Writing Process: The Messy Truth and the Importance of Naps
- April 7, 2014 Lucy Connors and The Lonesome Young: New YA series is "Romeo & Juliet" meets "Justified"
- March 20, 2014 Celebrate Spring: Splurge on Novels by New Authors!
- March 19, 2014 Writing Description Like a Museum Docent
- January 8, 2014 Hello, Blog. Did you miss me? Also, shall I introduce The Fearless Fifteeners? I shall!
2013
- September 24, 2013 YA novels for your 13-year-old pianist/singer/ songwriter/equestrian/poet/artist daughter
- September 9, 2013 It's okay to NOT write every day (says the author who took the summer off)...
- July 26, 2013 From Paris with Bookstore Love
- July 7, 2013 Today's Library Loot, and the Amazing Effects of a Dazzling Book Spine
- May 20, 2013 The slightly blurry (and beautifully mossy) world of WILD AWAKE author & former INTERN, Hilary Smith
- April 11, 2013 Diana Peterfreund on Publishing, Prequels, and the Puzzle Pieces of a Post-Apocalyptic Persuasion
- March 20, 2013 NYC Teen Author Festival... See you there?
- March 9, 2013 What I learned from Walter Dean Myers today
- March 4, 2013 Book love: LIAR & SPY by Rebecca Stead
- March 4, 2013 Three Quick Questions for Elsie Chapman (DUALED)
- February 18, 2013 SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE Author Joanne Levy on the "awesome whirlwind" of publishing
- February 4, 2013 One Teen Story is Accepting Submissions
- January 28, 2013 Oh, happy day! The 2013 Printz Award Winner and Honor Books are here!
- January 21, 2013 Author/Librarian Megan Frazer Blakemore on writing, reviews, and how kids choose books
- January 10, 2013 Discovering a new favorite author
- January 1, 2013 The Best of Best of YA 2012
2012
- December 11, 2012 The United States of YA
- December 4, 2012 Sarah Tregay looks back on a year of LOVE AND LEFTOVERS, her debut novel in verse
- November 24, 2012 The perfect reading-by-the-fire sort of day...
- November 13, 2012 Maureen McGowan on the long road to publishing and how contests can help
- November 6, 2012 LOVELY, DARK AND DEEP Author Amy McNamara finds inspiration in words, motion and images
- October 22, 2012 CONJURE author Lea Nolan combines adventure and romance in middle grade/young adult crossover
- October 17, 2012 Revisiting a "Hidden" Interview with Sophie Jordan, author of the FIRELIGHT series
- October 16, 2012 Have you met Gustav Gloom?
- October 9, 2012 Bev Katz Rosenbaum sizes up the publishing industry from dual perspectives (as author and editor)
- October 8, 2012 Eight years & five manuscripts later... Jeanne Ryan hits a NERVE with tale of truth-or-dare gone wrong
- October 4, 2012 Authors Ask: More Questions for Natalie Dias Lorenzi (on surviving submissions & what kids want to read!)
- October 1, 2012 Author/Librarian Natalie Dias Lorenzi takes the teaching-traveling-total-rewrite path to publication
- September 27, 2012 Peter Adam Salomon will scare you, simply by answering questions about scaring you...
- September 22, 2012 Look what came in the mail today: One Teen Story! (Have you subscribed?)
- September 20, 2012 Authors Ask: More Questions for Amy Fellner Dominy (about writing that first draft FAST!)
- September 18, 2012 Questions for YOU. What are you reading? What can't you wait to read next?
- September 17, 2012 OyMG, Amy Fellner Dominy has a new book (and will be promoting it via public humiliation... fun!)
- September 6, 2012 Five Questions for Shannon Greenland. Plus, how to land an agent with a margarita
- August 6, 2012 Katie McGarry is Pushing the Limits (Dare You To!)
- July 9, 2012 HELLO GORGEOUS! author Taylor Morris talks tweens, 12-steps, ghostwriting & more
- May 2, 2012 Jen Nielsen tackles princes, pixies, goblins and... in her spare time, the 6th Infinity Ring book
- March 29, 2012 Cheryl Rainfield taps painful memories to write novels that speak to troubled teens
- January 10, 2012 Shhh... Holly Cupala is about to Tell Me a Secret (Don't Breathe a Word!)