Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
When I am standing inside a cathedral of trees, surrounded by a hundred different shades of green- lime, spring, olive, velvet, emerald, moss, pea, viridian, pine, grass, apple, I have no trouble imagining a magical world and my safe place […]
I’ve always hated that saying, You’re born alone, You die alone. Really? I think that when we are born we hear our mother’s heartbeat, and the rush of her blood, and we are connected to her, are we not? until […]
Happy 5th Birthday to the light of my life!
So my friend and I were hanging out the other day in my bright sunroom, gazing through the windows at tight buds and green shoots and the wind-tossed sea, and drinking ginger tea, and speaking of ghastly things (because she […]
So since I moaned and griped about my agent search on this blog, it seems only right that I should make a formal announcement here as well. It took 7 months but I have finally found my perfect agent. She […]
Beautiful Lunenburg
The story of Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf (totally awesome name!) is one of my favorite childhood books. If you don’t know, Ferdinand is a gentle soul who just likes to smell the flowers until the day he sits […]
So I thought I had a pretty thick skin these days, ’cause you know, I’ve experienced quite a few agent rejections in the last coupla months… But apparently, getting rejected by ‘boys’ (and by boys I mean ‘men’ sometimes) is […]
Sixteen years ago, my best friend committed suicide. She hung herself in her mother’s garage. It was many years before I could speak it out loud without having a panic attack. May 29, 1995. Memorial Day in fact. Although I […]
I like the sound of 2012. 12 is a multiple of 3 and 3 is my favorite number just because it’s so neat and independent. A tripod- solid but with a little possible sway in its makeup. Potentially unpredictable if […]