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Treating residual pain with humor, making a joke out of the terror and turning it on its head, feels powerful.
I wondered what might happen if a girl who is hell-bent on maintaining her loner status is forced to socialize with an elderly woman. That “what if” lead to the very first draft of what would eventually become All Alone With You.
The truth is, there are no unimportant books, and the most important book is the one that you never forget.
Climate anxiety is real, it’s serious, and it’s on the rise—especially in teens and young adults.
Love, fear, growing up, coming out, the pandemic, and the Orlando nightclub shooting all captured in ten full-color panels.
My brand-new emotionally complex and deeply researched historical middle-grade novel, Light Comes to Shadow Mountain, started life on the page—and in my mind—as a picture book.
Fairy tales deal with serious issues that range from parental abuse to falling in love to leaving home for the first time. They’re more than just moral instruction; they’re survival guides wrapped up in magic.
The immense things within us—the things that feel as tumultuous and terrible as nature’s great storms—they can be faced, they can be beaten, they can be healed.
We need to write and share books that reflect what is real and normal and joyful – and not at all shameful.
In 2023, in our current era of censorship and aggressive attempts at book banning, perhaps it’s the most revolutionary thing we can do: speak. Or listen.
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