Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
Finally, finally, the publication date for Blood Will Out has arrived! I remind myself how much of publishing is hurry up and wait and I remind myself (far more importantly) to celebrate this moment. I conceived a book, I wrote a book, […]
I am a writer. (This is an attempt to claim it for my own. Or reclaim it). Nope. I don’t think I have fully embraced it as a job description. Not even now, with three books published. When, besides looking […]
LOVE YOU LIKE SUICIDE is a creative non-fiction e-book novella I wrote, published by FIERCE INK PRESS. Part of the proceeds go to benefit youth at Heartwood Centre, an awesome organization in Halifax that works within the […]
Perhaps I should have titled this “The Plan that went awry”. So, when I started writing the book which became Ashes, Ashes, I went pretty deep into my characters’ back stories- in particular Grammalie Rose, Aidan, Sammy and Del’s pasts. […]
Continuing the not-so-rosy-literary-life postings… Forgive me while I lay my head upon my arms and weep for a moment. A month ago, my beloved agent (yes, truly he is beloved) informed me that he was closing up shop. My first […]
So let me preface this by saying I am not going to complain (exactly) but these next two posts are going to be about the less golden aspects of writing for a living. (This one is about having my first […]
ARCS! ARCS are advance reading copies. They have nothing to do with Narcs. Or arks. They are exciting things because they go to reviewers and they are the first proof that in fact one is not dreaming and that there […]
Dystopian YA- the new Vampire??? http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6719039.html (note: my dystopian YA, LUCKY, will be out fall 2011 through Scholastic. )