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Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Stephanie Perkins
This is more than a book review. This is a story of how I fell in love with a couple of books and the author behind them. And this is a lesson in how much a writer learns simply from reading good books...
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Wildflowers from Winter, Katie Ganshert, and a giveaway!
Katie Ganshert springs from the starting gate with her debut novel, Wildflowers from Winter. The writing is lyrical and warm. Her characters are full of very real problems. And due to my own recent...
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What I’ve been reading… Submerged by Dani Pettrey, Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Let’s talk books today. What have you been reading? I’d love to know in the comments. As you’ll see in today’s post, my tastes are varied. I thought I’d mention a couple of books I’ve enjoyed lately...
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Dystopian – Ultimate in Crossover Potential. And some books I’ve been...
If an adult who doesn’t read much YA literature asked me where to start as far as YA, I’d have to recommend a few of my recent dystopian reads. For some reason, dystopian seems to reach a large...
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I’ve been on vacay to the place where vampires sparkle
Sorry for my absence the past week. It was a planned absence. Unfortunately, I’ve become slightly paranoid of telling the blogosphere and the facebook and the twitter that I’m about to leave my house...
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Some Thoughts on New Adult: A New Genre or a Traditional Publishing Nightmare?
Several months ago I started noticing the phrase “new adult” being mentioned everywhere. Mostly on blogs and twitter. It was the newest and hottest genre. And it wasn’t. What??!! That’s right. If you...
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How do we say THANK YOU to the authors we love?
Before I ever became a writer, I was a reader. And before I ever became a blogger and a tweeter and a frequent visitor of Goodreads, I had no idea how much writers appreciate hearing from readers....
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The Importance of Sample Chapters
I love discovering new authors to add to my list of favorites. Since becoming a writer, I’ve probably given more debut authors a chance than I ever did before I began writing for publication. Part of...
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Around the Blogosphere Today (aka – What Showed up in my Feedly This Morning)...
I thought I’d take a break from my Myths of Self-Publishing series to tell you a few things that have caught my eye around the blogosphere this morning. First, for you memoir lovers, and even if you...
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Ah, To Be Fourteen Again (A Guest Post by Wendy Miller)
I remember the first time I met Wendy Paine Miller. I got to “know” her first over at her blog Thoughts That Move. But the first time I met-met her was at the ACFW conference in the newbie session...
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Video Blog: What I’ve Been Reading and a POV Question
Welcome to episode #3 of Pick Heather’s Brain in which I discuss a tiny bit about Lauren Oliver’s Requiem (#3 in the Delirium series) and ask you for your opinion on POVs in young adult series.
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