This has been a lovely site to post to for a few years now, but with the launch of my updated website, I'll be posting future news on my new blog. It's good, trust me. Like one-stop-shopping.

You can check out the new look here.

Hope you enjoy!

. . . and Everyone's Invited to the Party!


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                             And I'm so excited I can hardly stand it! Getting ever so close to that June 26th release date!


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Join me for one (or all!) of the upcoming events celebrating
the launch of my latest novel,
a contemporary YA set to hit stores in June.


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It scares me to share before everything is totally and completely official (think signed contracts), but Publishers Marketplace announced my foreign deal last week, so I feel like I should too. I mean, it is my book, right?

So, here goes . . .

ONE MOMENT sold to Usborne and will hit stores in the UK next year! Which means I should see another cover ( Read more... )

Meet Cat Patrick.

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This whole author gig is such super-cool fun. It can be difficult, sure, when I'm hit with a huge editorial letter and I sit down to begin a major revision. Or when I'm in a waiting stage, wondering if my agent or editor will like my new idea, fancy rewrite, or even my simple revision to a tricky scene. But even the hard times are fun, because the ( Read more... )

“So. Where do you get your ideas?”

I’m asked this all the time, as if I might have some magic formula. It’s funny, because at any given moment I might be tossing around ten different ideas for my next book. The problem for most authors isn’t finding inspiration, it’s figuring out which inspiration to grab hold of and take to the next level. Which ( Read more... )

I love to talk books.
And I love to pass favorites along to others.
So here's my latest love:


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It's time for me to get serious about blogging again. I've had good intentions, really I have. But then writing gets in the way. Reading gets in the way. The kids and the laundry and the dishes and . . . well, LIFE just gets in the way. Lately, as I race through my days, blogging has begun to take center stage in my mind. I've been struggling with ( Read more... )