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Reading the classics is hard for some people. For a lot of people. And a lot of people simply won’t pick them up. That’s okay.
Many teenagers in this day and age not only understand that politics will impact their world, but that they can in turn, impact politics.
At times, life presents us with opportunities disguised as challenges. If we leap, we just might find solid ground and oh so much happiness.
To some people beginning with an image before writing the story might seem strange. But I have always been a visual person and drawing my way towards the story and solutions in my stories, works best for me.
Thank you to SLJ’s TLT, and Amanda MacGregor in particular, for allowing me to discuss several topics related to my debut, YA novel, FATIMA TATE TAKES THE CAKE. It was released June 13th, 2023, by Holiday House. The main character, Fatima, is a seventeen-year-old high school senior who aspires to become a pastry chef, contrary […]
Who are you when so much of your life is about image? When do you get to be you?
When I began to write All the Dead Lie Down, I was imagining what it would be like to have anxiety and be dropped into the middle of an actual Gothic novel.
I write books about grief not to make the reader sad, I write them to give readers a safe space to heal.
I wrote a book that would please a middle school kid who wants to hear his pen cluck just one… more… time.
This companion novel allows me to tell another one of those untold stories—uncovered through videos and memoirs and articles—of a young boy yearning to, one day, reunite with his father.
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