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By integrating what I’ve learned in The Search For Us, I hope I will give teen readers some tools to better cope with a family member who may be struggling with addiction.
You need to give yourself a break. You need to pass on the mantle. You need to stop seizing the day, and start soaking it up.
I hope you and young readers you know will pick up The Plot to Kill a Queen, and experience, in just a small way, the magic of theater.
What parts are Silver Bay reality and what parts are Copper Cove myth? Perhaps it doesn’t matter.
All happy groceries are alike: each unhappy grocery is unhappy in its own way.
In my middle grade fantasy, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF TATTERLY, it was important to me to highlight and celebrate the extended family.
My favorite foodie middle grades are warm, funny, and if you pay close attention, you can catch glimpses of the author and their heart in the pages.
Like hidden treasures (fictional and real), the story gems could be anywhere, and they might not be what you’d expect.
There might not be one answer, and that’s okay! I think fairy tales are about the questions and the exploration.
Stories let us see ourselves doing things and having adventures. They let us imagine ourselves in those places and know that we are valid.
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