Hey, guys, I posted a giveaway on Goodreads.

What are you waiting for? Enter to win a copy of...


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In honor of the shiny new paperback of ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE coming to a bookstore (or online retailer) near you in just nine days, I’m giving away a bunch of copies on Goodreads.

You can enter all month long, right here.

Look at the beauteous cover. Don’t you want one?


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March 10th is National Women & Girls' HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and I’m thrilled to have Paige Rawl as my first-ever blog interviewee.

I first learned about Paige a few months ago, when I read this article about a sixteen-year-old in Indiana (Paige) who had been bullied and harassed for one reason:  She was HIV-positive.

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One of the best parts of being in the kid/teen lit business is getting to be part of an outstanding community, and one of my favorite people in that community is Elizabeth Eulberg.

Elizabeth had a reading at Books of Wonder on Friday night for her brand new, absolutely fabulous book, PROM & PREJUDICE.  Here she is all dressed up in a beautiful ( Read more... )

And then, I was on the phone with my friend Stacia whose son, Jessarae, is one of my favorite singers.  (And that’s not just because he wrote a song for Positively.)


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FYI, comment on this post and be entered to win a SIGNED copy of Gayle Forman’s gorgeous, wrenching, gem of a book, IF I STAY

So I’m really happy about this deal I made (with myself) to blog about a friend every Tuesday, because it gives me a great excuse to write about my friend Gayle.  I went to her event at BookCourt last night, and as she read a ( Read more... )