Righteous Reader Love!

The part of writing is hearing from readers, especially when they specifically tell you how they were affected by your novel.  Today's reader love is a little different... my full-time gig is teaching high school English to sophomores and juniors.  Every quarter, my Pre-AP kids have a major reading assignment.  One of my students...

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Blog Hop Tour 2014 - Featuring Trudi Trueit

I'm thrilled to share Trudi Trueit's "Why I Write What I Write!"  Traci is a super star in middle grade fiction - she writes stories students can connect with and adds plenty of humor to keep them laughing!   Want to score some points with your favorite middle-grader? Pick up one of these! Let's take a little peek inside the...

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Blog Hop Tour 2014

I've been tagged in the Blog Hop Tour and I'm super excited to be here. Shout out and a clink of wine glasses to my girl, Kimberly Belle, who added me to the tour. You absolutely must check out her site and blog out. Her debut novel, The Last Breath, releases September 20th. I've read it, love it, and you will, too! Kimberly's one of the most amazing women I know - crazy smart, runway gorgeous (and doesn't know it), and...

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Yes!

My new website has officially launched!  I hope you'll check it out and pass it on to your reading friends, teachers, and school librarians! I'd love to visit your school and talk about writing, reading, and never giving up!  Check out the Contact page for detai...

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Writing, writing, writing!

I'm neck deep in revising a manuscript I wrote after "Flawless."  Here's what I've figured out: The first draft is embarrassingly two-dimensional.  It's bad.  Like, burn-it bad. What I thought was pure genius is... lackluster, to put it nicely. You can never, ever, ever stop learning about writing. So, I'm back in a...

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